Wilhelm G. Jacobs Livres

Legendär, so wird berichtet, sei manche Begebenheit im Leben Johann Gottlieb Fichtes gewesen. Die Züge der Legende finden sich, seltsam genug, eingetragen in das Leben eines Gelehrten, der sich zum Ziel gesetzt hatte, die Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft zu etablieren. Die Wunder der Legende reimen sich schlecht auf Wissenschaft. Diese hat es mit Gesetzen und Normen zu tun, und wo ihr ein Wundersames begegnet, versucht sie, es auf Gesetze zurückzuführen und damit aufzulösen. Im Leben Fichtes geschah nicht nur Legendäres, es war nicht nur der gesunde Menschenverstand, der Legenden erzählte, auch die Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung trug das ihre zur Legende bei. Fichte war der Philosoph des Ich, der deutsche Jakobiner, der Redner an die deutsche Nation - nur der Wissenschaftslehrer, als der er sich vornehmlich verstand, der war er nicht.

This introduction presents a serious and reliable dialogue partner for current issues. Whether the issue at stake is the interpretation of the environmental crisis not as a crisis of nature but as a crisis of human beings themselves, the current discussion on monotheism or polytheism, or a modern explanation of genius, the reader will find answers in Schelling‹s works. Using key terms, Jacobs shows Schelling to be a consistent thinker of freedom, thus showing the reader how this runs like a common thread through Schelling‹s philosophy. As a co-editor of the historico-critical Schelling edition and co-founder of the International Schelling Society, Gesellschaft, Jacobs, in his knowledgeable and inventive manner, inspires us to read Schelling.

The philosophy of history originated from the debate between the mind, conscious of itself since Descartes, and tradition, especially religion. Spinoza was a vehement advocate of a sensible concept of God. According to Schelling, Lessing and Herder agreed with him. Kant‹s critique replaced this concept of God with a critical concept which allows freedom to be conceivable in history. Schelling goes beyond Kant in conceiving of a God who reveals Himself as an enablement of history, as a realization of freedom. The dispute with religious tradition does not lead to an elimination of the concept of God but instead to a deeper understanding of Him.

Was Tübingen really a stronghold of orthodoxy, in which students were reduced to forming a Jacobin Club and to reading revolutionary literature including Kant‹s subversive philosophy? The author begins by dealing with this question and then presents sources which do away with this cliché. These are papers and documents from the archives which provide information on the academic teaching. The authors include Hölderlin‹s friends Magenau and Neuffer, the Kantian enragé Diez and Niethammer, who subsequently founded the ‹Philosophical Journal‹.

Ksiazka wprowadza w kluczowe pojecia filozofii Schellinga i wyjasnia je w kontekscie filozofii owczesnej zwlaszcza Kantowskiej