Two masters to one century: Schelling

During the read of Philosophy of art of Friedrich Schelling(1775-1854), are manifest two masters of Greek philosophy this is Plato(b.Ch. 428-348) and Aristotle(b.Ch.384-322), but beginning the analyses of two addresses that Schelling followed, I want quote a step of this book that is reality, differently from other steps: “Albrecht Dürer with Raphael, Cervantes and Calderon together Shakespeare. This era is happily  and purely productive is past, takes the place of reflection and to her the universal scission: that there was the living wit, now is tradition. This mention is valid as absolute and real character of history, because that now is present to future generations is going to be alone tradition. But elements very Platonic and Aristotelian together are present in other steps: “Now the philosophy is manifest alone in the totality of every potencies. But the universe is to absolute represented  in totality of every ideal determinations. God and universe are a thing alone”; this is every thing is contained in universe, it is real, because the word together milliards of other planets is in universe; therefore as the word is contained also the single stone, home, man and all, this explication easier to explication of this concept that can seems very difficult. Other step clarifies regard strictly philosophical sense. “In absolute idea, that is principal of philosophy, identity and totality go back to be a unique thing”; he repeats same concept, everything is one alone; we must understand this abstract concept through real examples: when we look a table, because we want furnish our home, we choose the furniture, and we look as table, I repeat, and we look intensely because we want be sure of this choice, thereupon we search the motive to buy this table; when we look the table, to material we look the table, but ideally we are looking the nature that has given the tree necessary to wood, therefore the nature, because the tree is in nature, but the nature include the all tree, the animals, the rain, the rivers and stone and other, hence we are looking that all the nature, the spontaneous comment is why not men? Because man is secondary regard time, because the joiner represent the artisan but, ideally, the mankind that, now, is distinct from the tree, although the man lives in nature as the tree; this distinction, that to table are necessary, this is the quality of wood and the artisan to Shelling are potencies, but both the man and the tree are elements of all, this is the nature, the word, the universe, this is God, (to avoid these philosophical problems the next time that you must choose also an ashtray, I can advise you; send other). Other step: “In philosophy isn’t absolutely other except the absolute, this the absolute one…hence is clear that can’t exist the particular philosophies and neither the particular philosophical sciences…In the general philosophy every single power is to its absolutely, but is this to its is part of all   ”; it is the concept that we have seen above, the single that is part of all. Its is the Platonism, because in opinion of Plato in the word of ideas everything was contained, and the reality is alone the imperfect reflex of this word of ideas, but emerges from this description also the bond very strict to idealism of 19^th century, but different from Hegel(1770-1831), because idealism of Schelling is philosophical alone, and abstract, instead, although philosophical is more concrete; anyway beyond Plato is also Aristotle because the philosophy that contains all is also the think of think Aristotle’s, that in Hegel is absolute spirit, because in think of philosopher of Stagira everything is in think of think; fro this concept Hegel took the absolute spirit. But in Schelling two thinks are present from his idealism, and he follows both to a think that can be interesting but not certainly original.

Alessandro Lusana