Schelling on Truth and Person

Nikolaj Zunic

doi:10.5771/9781666915891

Summary

Positive philosophy is the name that Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) gave to a new type of philosophizing that stands in contrast to the so-called negative philosophy that is predominant in modern rationalism. But what exactly is positive philosophy? Schelling on Truth and Person: The Meaning of Positive Philosophy argues that its meaning lies in a distinctive view of the human person as a seeker of truth. Truth is presented as historically woven in the movement of life with the phenomena of mythology and religion that reveal the human being's falling away from and return to the truth. Nikolaj Zunic demonstrates that this novel understanding of truth accompanies the development and expression of positive philosophy itself. The anthropological dimension of truth relates to self-knowledge, the soul, spirit, and personality, and Schelling’s positive philosophy sheds light on the grand themes of the meaning of life, the ontological question (why is there something rather than nothing?), the enigma of knowledge and reason, and the affirmation of the existence of God. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in Schelling's late philosophy as well as broader questions in philosophy concerning meaning, truth, human nature, and rationality.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1588-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1589-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 274
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Schelling’s Works in the Original German No access
  2. Other Editions of Schelling’s Works in German No access
  3. Some English Translations of Schelling’s Works No access
  4. Translation Note No access
4. 1. Negative and Positive Philosophy No access
  2. In Search of the True God No access
  3. Philosophical Anthropology and Truth No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. Notes No access
2. 1. Faith in the Living God No access
  2. Mythology and the Real Relation between Man and God No access
  3. Christian Revelation and the Personal God No access
  4. The Centrality of the Self and the Becoming of Personality No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Truth Implies Falsity No access
  2. Error Is a Positively Distorted Truth No access
  3. Emphatic Knowledge and the Positive Assertion No access
  4. Notes No access
4. 1. Faith: The Immediate Unity of Knowing and Acting No access
  2. All Science Seeks Rest No access
  3. Notes No access
5. 1. Plato’s Sophist: The Conflict between Philosophy and Sophistry No access
  2. The Apprehension of Truth No access
  3. The Shortcomings of Nous No access
  4. The Johannine and Philonic Concepts of the Logos No access
  5. Christological Considerations No access
  6. Notes No access
1. 1. The Socratic Injunction: Sophrosune and Ignorance No access
  2. To Will the Truth No access
  3. Notes No access
2. 1. The Potentiality of a Beginning No access
  2. Conscience No access
  3. “The Soul Does Not Know But Is Science” No access
  4. Notes No access
3. 1. Willing: The Principle of Selfhood No access
  2. The Decisive Necessity of Action No access
  3. The Separation into the Distance No access
  4. Notes No access
4. 1. Spirituality, Recollection, and Prayer No access
  2. Community: Church and State No access
  3. The Goal of Education No access
  4. Notes No access
5. 1. Freedom and Contradiction No access
  2. The Clash of Oppositional Forces No access
  3. The World as a Means or an End No access
  4. Suffering No access
  5. The Desert Experience No access
  6. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 257 - 268
Index No access Pages 269 - 272
About the Author No access Pages 273 - 274