Schelling's Mystical Platonism

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Schelling’s Mystical Platonism
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Dedication
Contents
Note on Translations and Citations
Introduction
	1. 	What Is Platonism?
	2. 	Schelling’s Mystical Platonism
	3. 	Context, Scope, and Summary
	4. 	Acknowledgements
	PART I SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHICAL BEGINNINGS
		1. Grounding and Unity: Schelling’s Philosophy in Context
			1. Introduction
			2. Jacobi’s Specification of the Ideals of Philosophy
			3. Grounding Unity in Reinhold and Fichte
			4. Schelling’s Arguments against Discursive Grounding Unity
			5. Schelling’s Platonism as a Response to These Aims
			6. Conclusion
		2. Mysticism in Schelling’s Plato-​Notebooks of 1792–​1794
			1. Introduction
			2. The Structure and Purpose of the Plato-​Notebooks
			3. Divine Power and Divine Dispensation: Poetry and Prophecy
			4. Knowledge as a Natural Explanatory Account
			5. Philosophy and Divine Dispensation
			6. Socrates as Midwife
			7. Intellectual Intuition in Schelling’s Identity Philosophy
			8. Conclusion
		3. Schelling’s Timaeus-​commentary: Integrating Plato and Kant
			1. Introduction
			2. The Timaeus-​commentary and Schelling’s Taxonomy of Ideas
			3. Limit, the Unlimited, and the Generation of Empirical Ideas
			4. Kantian Affinities in the Timaeus-​commentary
			5. Conclusion
		4. Neoplatonism in Schelling’s Of the I and Letters
			1. Introduction
			2. Schelling’s Early Exposure to Neoplatonism
			3. Neoplatonic Background
			4. Intellectual Intuition as Immanence
			5. Procession from the Absolute and Theoretical Philosophy
			6. Return as Moral Progress and Creative Activity
			7. Conclusion
	PART II SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENTS
		5. Schelling’s Innovations: Neoplatonism in the 1797 Ideas and 1800 System
			1. Introduction
			2. Unity in Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
			3. Unity in the System of Transcendental Idealism
			4. Neoplatonic Innovations
			5. Conclusion
		6. Limit, the Unlimited, and Potency: Platonism in Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature
			1. Introduction
			2. Nature as Duality Striving Toward Unity
			3. The Four Principles of the Philebus in Schelling’s Introduction
			4. Potency as Mathematical Exponent
			5. Potency as Power in Plato, Neoplatonism, and Schelling
			6. Nature’s Progression Toward Unity
			7. Conclusion
		7. Mysticism in Schelling’s 1801–​1802 Writings
			1. Introduction
			2. The Nature of the Incomprehensible: Absolute and Theoretical Cognition in Bruno
			3. Negative Theology and Higher Faculties
			4. The Role of Absolute Cognition in System-​Building: Exhibition and Schematism
			5. Participation, Unity, and Systematicity
			6. Conclusion
		8. Priority Monism in Schelling’s 1801–​1802 Writings
			1. Introduction
			2. Schelling’s Identity Philosophy
			3. Issues in Schelling’s Identity Philosophy: Monism and Merely Stipulative Unity
			4. Priority Monism and Platonism in Bruno
			5. Schelling’s Priority Monism and Mysticism in Context
			6. Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index