This is an English translation of Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (first published in 1797 and revised in 1803), one of the most significant works in the German tradition of philosophy of nature and early nineteenth-century philosophy of science. It stands in opposition to the Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles, and argues instead for matter as an equilibrium of active forces that engage in dynamic polar opposition to one another. In the revisions of 1803 Schelling incorporated this dialectical view into a neo-Platonic conception of an original unity divided upon itself. The text is of more than simply historical interest: its daring and original vision of nature, philosophy, and empirical science will prove absorbing reading for all philosophers concerned with post-Kantian German idealism, for scholars of German Romanticism, and for historians of science.
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What the previous philosophical speculation of our age has left us as its net result is briefly the following: "The former theoretical philosophy (under the name of metaphysics) was a mixture of quite heterogeneous principles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pure absoluteness, chemical motion, absolute cohesion, aeriform fluids, electric matter, relative cohesion, different electricities, selective attraction, speculative physics, atmospheric cycle, electrical matter, vital air, absolute act, dynamical forces, inflammable air, particular succession, mere modification, basic forces, basic masses, negative electricity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume 1: Greek Philosophy to Plato (Lectures on the History of Philosophy Vol. 1) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Front Matter
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