Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity
Book contents
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Reviews
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Critique of Reason: Debates on Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism
- Part II Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism
- 5 Jacobi’s Argument and Dilemma
- 6 The Jacobi–Schelling Debate
- 7 Jacobi’s Response to Religious Nihilism
- 8 Jacobi and the German Protestant Tradition
- Part III Jacobi and the Revival of Socraticism: The Muenster Circle and Existentialism
- Part IV Jacobi’s Impact on Idealism and Romanticism
- Jacobi Sources
- Index
- References
6 - The Jacobi–Schelling Debate
from Part II - Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 February 2023
Edited by
Book contents
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Reviews
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Critique of Reason: Debates on Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism
- Part II Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism
- 5 Jacobi’s Argument and Dilemma
- 6 The Jacobi–Schelling Debate
- 7 Jacobi’s Response to Religious Nihilism
- 8 Jacobi and the German Protestant Tradition
- Part III Jacobi and the Revival of Socraticism: The Muenster Circle and Existentialism
- Part IV Jacobi’s Impact on Idealism and Romanticism
- Jacobi Sources
- Index
- References
Summary
Several central themes of Schelling’s celebrated 1809 Freedom Essay were constructed in direct response to Jacobi. This chapter touches on two themes in which Schelling opposes Jacobi, and in doing so pushes Schelling’s thinking on human freedom into entirely fresh terrain: the first theme is Jacobi’s concept of reason, and the second is Jacobi’s understanding of pantheism as logically entailing determinism.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the EnlightenmentReligion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity, pp. 104 - 123Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
References
Beiser, Frederick C. German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Ford, Lewis S. “The Controversy Between Jacobi and Schelling.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 3, no. 1 (1965): 75–89.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Henke, Ernst L. Jakob Friedrich Fries: Aus seinem handschriftlichen Nachlasse dargestellt. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1867.Google Scholar
Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich. Ueber gelehrte Gesellschaften, ihren Geist und Zweck. Eine Abhandlung, vorgelesen bey der feyerlichen Erneuung der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München von dem Präsidenten der Akademie. Munich: Fleischmann, 1807.Google Scholar
Kasper, Walter. The Absolute in History. Translated by Sr. Katherine E. Wolff. The Collected Works of Walter Kasper, vol. 2. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2018.Google Scholar
McGrath, Sean J. The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious. London: Routledge, 2012.Google Scholar
The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive. Glasgow: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.Google Scholar
Rasmussen, Anders Moe. “The Legacy of Jacobi in Schelling and Kierkegaard.” In Kierkegaard und Schelling: Freiheit, Angst und Wirklichkeit. Edited by Hennigfeld, Jochem and Stewart, Jon. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003.Google Scholar
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph. Vom Ich als Princip der Philosophie oder über das Unbedingte im menschlichen Wissen. Vol. 1 of Sämtliche Werke. Edited by Schelling, K. F. A.. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1856. 149–244.Google Scholar
Denkmal der Schrift von den göttlichen Dingen, etc. des Herrn Friederich Heinrich Jacobi und der ihm in derselben gemachten Beschuldigung eines absichtlich täuschenden, Lügen redenden Atheismus. Vol. 8 of Sämtliche Werke. Ed. Schelling, K. F. A.. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1860. 19–138.Google Scholar
Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature. Translated by Harris, Errol E. and Heath, Peter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.Google Scholar
On the History of Modern Philosophy. Translated by Bowie, Andrew. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
The Ages of the World. Third draft. Translated by Wirth, Jason M.. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000.Google Scholar
First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature. Translated by Peterson, Keith R.. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom. Translated by Love, Jeff and Schmidt, Johannes. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006.Google Scholar
The Ages of the World (1811). Translated by Lawrence, Joseph. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2019.Google Scholar
Philosophy of Revelation (1841–42) and Related Texts. Translated by Ottmann, Klaus. Thompson, CT: Spring, 2020.Google Scholar
Snow, Dale E. Schelling and the End of Idealism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Weischeidel, Wilhelm. Streit um die Göttlingen Dinge, die Ausseinandersetzung zwischen Jacobi und Schelling. Darmstadt: Wisenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967.Google Scholar