Freedom and Ground : A Study of Schelling's Treatise on Freedom / Mark J. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Mark J., author.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854. Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von.

Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit (Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von).

Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

A new interpretation of Schelling's 1809 treatise on freedom, demonstrating how the work is an answer to the problem of ground.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Ground and the Question of a System of Freedom

1. The Concept of System

2. The Principle of Ground and the Concept of System

3. Jacobi and the Conflict between System and Freedom

4. Two Predominant Metaphors for System

5. Conclusion: Heidegger and the Alleged Failure of a System of Freedom

Chapter 2 Identity, Ground, and the Meaning of the Copula in Judgments

1. Pantheism and the Nature of Identity

2. Explication of Schelling's Four Accounts of the Copula

Account 1: The subject has a mediated connection with the predicate.

Account 2: The subject relates to the predicate as antecedens to consequens.

Account 3: The subject relates to the predicate as implicitum to explicitum.

Account 4: The subject relates to the predicate as ground to consequence.

3. Conclusion: The Unity of Schelling's Account of the Copula?

Chapter 3 The Creative Unity of the Law of Identity

1. The Unity Expressed by the Law of Identity

2. The Co-originality of the Laws of Identity and Ground

3. The Transformation of the Law of Ground

4. Divine Grounding and the Possibility of Freedom

Chapter 4 Schelling's Fundamental Distinction between Ground and What Exists

1. General Characterization of the Distinction

2. The Distinction in Relation to the Doctrine of Potencies

3. The Distinction within the Distinction

4. The Grounding Character of the Ground of Existence

5. Grounding Relations in a System of Freedom

Chapter 5 Evil and the Irrational

1. The Ground of Evil

2. Evil as a Ground of Revelation?

3. The Irrational and the Irreducible Remainder

4. The Living Character of Schelling's Rationalism

Chapter 6 The Ungrund as the Ultimate Origin

1. The Context of Schelling's Treatment of the Ungrund

2. The Ungrund as the Wesen of the Two Principles in God

3. Characteristics of the Ungrund and Its Relation to Schelling's Previous Descriptions of the Absolute

4. Indifference and the Grounding Character of the Ungrund

5. The Ungrund and the Relationship between Essence and Form

Chapter 7 Freedom, Necessity, and Self-Grounding

1. The Formal vs. the Real Concept of Freedom

2. The Unity of Freedom and Necessity beyond Appearance

3. The Intelligible Deed

4. Self-Grounding and the Concept of Causa Sui

Conclusion Ground in a System of Freedom

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Print version: Thomas, Mark J. Freedom and Ground

ISBN:

9781438493015

1438493010

OCLC:

1376932417