Friedrich Schelling

Immanuel Kant “God, immortality, and other such metaphysical matters were not empirical. Metaphysics, therefore, was beyond the powers of human reason.”

Kant’s Critique of Reason “We can only know a world that has passed through the grid work of space and time and the other categories of the understanding.”

Schelling’s Problem As Kant had to face skepticism, so Shelling faced the problem of the split between mind and body, spirit and nature.

Alpha and Omega Schelling; “I posit God as both the first and the last, as the unevolved and as the fully evolved.”

J.G. Fichte Fichte: “Being is one endlessly self- developing life which always advances toward a higher self- realization in a never ending stream of time.”

Nature and Mind “Thus, says Schelling, where nature was objective Spirit, mind is subjective Spirit.”

Freedom Freedom is not a given, but it is an inherent potential.

Problems with Development With each stage of development comes further complexity, which has thus more possibilities for both advancement and problems.