german idealism

Nature was no mere appearance for Schelling, but rather the living ground and visible body of an eternally incarnating divinity. In contrast to Kant’s view in his third Critique of Judgment that the human mind could not understand with any clarity the organic or living aspect of nature, Schelling affirms our ability to cultivate special... See more

Our sensory experience, attended to in earnest, reveals itself to be infinite, sublime; it is only after reflective consciousness has manufactured for us a finite, determined world that this infinity is obscured. In attempting to descend below the veil of transcendental reflection into the depths of the sensible, Schelling reverses the typical... See more