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 selfdeveloping life
which always
advances toward a
higher selfrealization 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.