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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

By
Sean J. McGrath
Edited by
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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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.

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Jacobi-Schelling debatefreedomreasonpantheismdeterminism
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity
 , pp. 104 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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