Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom
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Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom

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Schelling's masterpiece investigating evil and freedom.

Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt offer a fresh translation of Schelling's enigmatic and influential masterpiece, widely recognized as an indispensable work of German Idealism. The text is an embarrassment of riches-both wildly adventurous and somberly prescient. Martin Heidegger claimed that it was "one of the deepest works of German and thus also of Western philosophy" and that it utterly undermined Hegel's monumental Science of Logic before the latter had even appeared in print. Schelling carefully investigates the problem of evil by building on Kant's notion of radical evil, while also developing an astonishingly original conception of freedom and personality that exerted an enormous (if subterranean) influence on the later course of European philosophy from Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard through Heidegger to important contemporary theorists like Slavoj Zưizƻek.

This translation of Schelling's notoriously difficult and densely allusive work provides extensive annotations and translations of a series of texts (by Boehme, Baader, Lessing, Jacobi, and Herder), hard to find or previously unavailable in English, whose presence in the Philosophical Investigations is unmistakable and highly significant. This handy study edition of Schelling's masterpiece will prove useful for scholars and students alike.

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Table of contents

  1. PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Schellingā€™s Treatise on Freedom and the Possibility of Theodicy
  5. Translatorsā€™ Note
  6. PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM AND MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH
  7. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  8. Mysterium Pansophicum Or Thorough Report on the Earthly and Heavenly Mysterium1
  9. Franz Xaver Von Baader: ā€œON THE ASSERTION THAT THERE CAN BE NO WICKED USE OF REASONā€1
  10. Ephraim Gotthold Lessing: ā€œThe Parableā€1
  11. FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI: From On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters To Mr. Moses Mendelssohn1
  12. JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER: God.Some Conversations
  13. Notes
  14. Index