Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854)

Similar to Fichte's The Foundations of All Knowledge and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, they are a kind of "development history of self-consciousness."In isolation, spiritualism can be understood as pure self-awareness or an Odyssey of the self (the process of returning home, discovering and knowing the self). The nature of the a priori mode of inquiry can only be a continuous activity in which the subjective makes itself its object. The organ of transcendental philosophy is inner sense, which is also a constructive activity in which objects are freely created, "people must be both created and at the same time creator."The self is not a thing, but a concept of higher activity. "Self" is self-bearing and self-supporting, objectively manifested as eternal generation, subjectively manifested as infinite creation. Existence is only suspended freedom. The proposition of transcendental idealism is: "Through the activity of self-consciousness, the ego makes itself its own object." The infinite expression of the self in the finite state is "infinite generation". The unity of subject and object replaces the phenomenon. -thing in itself, These discourses and deductive processes are reminiscent of what Novalis calls "Philosophy is really homesickness, it is the urge to be at home everywhere."… (more)

Philosophy is the conceptual representation of the original knowledge, and all other knowledge, taken together, is its actual representation; But in all other knowledge, in which particularity and division hold sway, they can be truly united only in the Gattung, and even in the gattung they must be united in the infinite process. Every successive Realwerden transformation of an idea is history, and this leads to the fact that the sciences are in fact Offenbarung, an Offenbarung historiographical aspect of primary knowledge, that is to say, the sciences must be organized in accordance with the same types that one also finds in philosophy.

1. Since theology is a science which objectifies the innermost of philosophy, the department of theology must be the first and highest department; It must be the first in the medical department. As for the Department of Philosophy, it is my opinion that there is none at all, and the simplest proof of this is that if a thing is everything, it is precisely for this reason that it cannot be a particular thing, that is, philosophy is only a free alliance.

2. The spirit of the modern world is impatient to take back the most beautiful, but also finite forms of life-principles, to crush them within itself, while at the same time its intention is to renew in forms eternally new. The one who created the infinite has already been exposed. It is also clear that what the spirit of the modern world seeks is not a Christianity as a mere individual phenomenon of experience, but the eternal Idea itself. The mission of Christianity is not limited to the past, but extends infinitely along an immeasurable time.

3. When the great objective things (national institutions and even the universal religious community) disappear without a trace, when the divine principle withdraws from the world, in this case, the appearance of nature is only the perfection of the finite. Deprived of the soul of the body, the light has been completely turned inward, and the opposition of the subjective and the objective must have reached its zenith.… (more)