The PHILOSOPHY of FRIEDRICH SCHELLING: Nature and Idealism (NATURPHILOSOPHIE)

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Explaining the philosophy of Friedrich Schelling and his nature philosophy, naturphilosophie, in 30 minutes. Schelling's Transcendental Idealism can best be understood as a philosophy of naturalistic idealism.
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).

[gerardlabeouf]

9:55 to 10:06 reminds me of the concept of excess of energy in georges bataille accursed share .
your oration is very captivating thank you

[natureszodiac]

I enjoyed this so much, thank you! This insight really backs up what I've been discovering about nature and humanity by transforming the zodiac wheel into a torus field (with Taurus the sign of nature at the center). The wheel that turns is based on law, but the torus is based on freedom (or the wheel about contraction and the torus about expansion). Freedom, or expansion is 'bigger' as you were saying than law, or contraction, but they must exist together. In astrology this is the symbol of Saturn flipped as Jupiter (contraction and expansion). My studies show time as two things- one chronological and the other as a true identity based on freedom. This quote by Schelling led me here: “Time is not something that runs independently of the I, but the I is time conceived in activity."
I think a day is near where science and philosophy will blend a bit more. This presentation was just so inspiring, thanks again, Tess

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Amazing and insightful ! Kudos for your beautiful video !!

[jimsteele]

I don’t know why Schelling doesn’t get more attention. He makes me think of Emerson. And there is a connection I think. Coleridge was influenced by Schelling and Emerson was taken with Coleridge. A hypothesis I gotta look into further.

[clumsydad]

excellent, a lot to unpack here ... overall, fichte's dismissal of nature is highly problematic, especially from a modern epistemology, knowing how intimately linked we are to the natural world. i need to look into the state of early 19th century german science and Goethe as a lot of the thoughts here seem very modern, proto-Darwinian as mentioned. the concept of culture vs. civilization is quite interesting, also that of expansive vs. contractive. i think we are well deceived in our modern world in our obsessive and spurious measures of 'growth': accumulations of concrete, plastics, pollutants, and weapons - many of which literally 'gross' domestic products. schelling's emphasis on the organic character, vitality, and flow of nature definitely breathes life into sterile, traditional metaphysics and opens the door to fruitfully bridging philosophy into other areas of study. well done, ty

[Continential]

Does Schelling attempt to derive his expanding and contracting forces a priori?

[Dino_Medici]

Your channel is really cool bro. Do you have any favorite works on the philosophy of beauty? I’m into everything from cog sci to abstract poetry lol

[watcher]

Very nice series. What I didn't understand is how his nature philosophy is different or not compatible with the scienticit reductive view. Can his notion of nature not also do its thing if it was started in a deterministic kind of fashion?

[VVeltanschauung]

Powerful stuff. Unfortunately there's a lot of ignorance surrounding German culture in an anglo-french dominated world. Many people take for granted ideas that have come from such circle of intellectuals, and when somebody praises german culture they think of you as some sort of nationalist. I think it's absolutely imperative people learn German the same way people learn Latin or Greek -- for cultural purposes. This seems to fly over the heads of many vulgar people