PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Natura Naturata, Absolute Idealism, Pantheism

• School: Eastern Oregon University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 101
• Professor: Albert Smith

Document Summary

Schelling"s philosophy can be called an "identity philosophy". Nature and spirit, subject and object, ideality and reality are identical sub specie ae- ternitatis in the absolute. This is pure reason, and as such indifference (i. e. , lack of difference or identity) is between the subjective and the objective. Philosophy deals with the relationship between the finite as differentiated and the infinite as absolute identity or identical absolute. The speculation about the absolute occupies a large part of schelling"s later phylosophy. There is a growing division and mythologization of the absolute, a tendency towards pantheism and speculative theism. According to schelling, the absolute cannot be the cause of the universe (totality), because it is. 1 the same universe that manifests itself finely in nature and in human in-dependence. The absolute is above all consciousness of itself, the lack of difference between subject and object; that is, the identity of all differences (one can see the in-flow of giordano bruno).