Summary
This is an approximate summary of the content of the Freiheitsschrift using page numbering as appears in Schelling's Works. There is no division except into paragraphs.
- 336-8 There is a traditional view that system excludes individual freedom; but on the contrary it does have "a place in the universe". This is a problem to solve.
- 338-343 Reformulation as the issue of pantheism and fatalism.
- 343-8 Spinoza and Leibniz.
- 348 German idealism versus French atheistic mechanism; Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre.
- 349-352 It is a mistake to believe that idealism has simply displaced pantheism.
- 352-355 The real conception of freedom is the possibility of good and evil.
- 356-357 Critique of the abstract conception of God; Naturphilosophie.
- 357-358 Ground of God and light.
- 359-366 Critique of immanence.
- 366-373 Conception of evil according to Baader.
- 373-376 Evil is necessary for God's revelation; exegesis of "matter" in Plato.
- 376-7 The irrational element in organic beings; disjunction of light and darkness.
- 379 Golden Age.
- 382-3 Formal conception of freedom; Buridan's Ass.
- 383 Idealism defines freedom.
- 385 Man's being is his own deed.
- 387 Predestination.
- 389-394 General possibility of evil and inversion of selfhood's place.
- 394 God's freedom.
- 396 Leibniz on laws of nature.
- 399 God is not a system, but a life; finite life in man.
- 402 God brought forward order from chaos.
- 403 History is incomprehensible without a concept of a humanly suffering God.
- 406 Primal ground (Ungrund) is before all antitheses; groundlessness self-divides.
- 409 Evil is a parody.
- 412 Revelation and reason.
- 413 Paganism and Christianity.
- 413 Personality rests on a dark foundation, which is also the foundation of knowledge.
- 414 Dialectical philosophy.
- 415 Historical foundation of philosophy.
- 416 Nature as revelation, and its archetypes. Promise of further treatises.
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