Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈjoːzɛf ˈʃɛlɪŋ];[13][14][15][16] 27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854), later (after 1812) von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him between Johann Gottlieb Fichte, his mentor in his early years, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, his one-time university roommate, early friend, and later rival. Interpreting Schelling's philosophy is regarded as difficult because of its evolving nature.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Schelling by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1835
Born	(1775-01-27)27 January 1775 Leonberg, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died	20 August 1854(1854-08-20) (aged 79) Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Education	Tübinger Stift, University of Tübingen (1790–1795: M.A., 1792; PhD, 1795) Leipzig University (1797; no degree)
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy German idealism Post-Kantian transcendental idealism[1] (before 1800) Objective idealism Absolute idealism (after 1800)[2] Naturphilosophie (a combination of transcendental realism and transcendental naturalism)[3] Jena Romanticism Romanticism in science Correspondence theory of truth[4]
Institutions	University of Jena University of Würzburg University of Erlangen University of Munich University of Berlin
Thesis	De Marcione Paulinarum epistolarum emendatore (On Marcion as emendator of the Pauline letters) (1795)
Doctoral advisors	Gottlob Christian Storr
Main interests	Naturphilosophie, natural science, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, Christian philosophy
Notable ideas	List Coining the term absolute idealism[5] System of Naturphilosophie Philosophy of chemistry[6] Identitätsphilosophie [de] (philosophy of identity) Positive Philosophie [de] (positive philosophy) "Unconscious infinity" as the basic character of art[7]
Influences Plato, Böhme, Aristotle, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Jacobi, Herder, Goethe, Hölderlin, J. G. Fichte, Kielmeyer, Plotinus
Influenced Ast, Bernays,[8] Carus,[9] Coleridge, Humboldt, Cousin, Deleuze, Esenbeck,[9] Fackenheim, Fichte, Freud, Gadamer, Goethe, Grant, Habermas,[10] Hâjdeu, Hegel, Heidegger, Jung, Kierkegaard, Krause, Pareyson, Peirce, Ravaisson, Royce,[11] Secrétan, da Silva, Solger, Solovyov, Tillich, Van Til, Vogelin,[12] von Hartmann, Weisse, Wilber, Žižek, Russian Schellingianism
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Schelling's thought in the main has been neglected, especially in the English-speaking world. An important factor in this was the ascendancy of Hegel, whose mature works portray Schelling as a mere footnote in the development of idealism. Schelling's Naturphilosophie also has been attacked by scientists for its tendency to analogize and lack of empirical orientation.[17] However, some later philosophers have shown interest in re-examining Schelling's body of work.