Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Tags: Philosopher.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854) later von Schelling was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism situating him between Johann Gottlieb Fichte his mentor in his early years and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel his former university roommate early friend and later rival.

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birth date

1775-01-27

birth place

Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Leonberg, Duchy of Württemberg

death date

1854-08-20

death place

Switzerland, Bad Ragaz, Ragatz

era

19th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118607057

influenced

Charles Sanders Peirce, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Paul Tillich, Carl Jung, Martin Heidegger, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Slavoj Žižek, Victor Cousin, Charles Secrétan, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Emil Fackenheim, Isaac Bernays, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexandru Hâjdeu, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Iain Hamilton Grant

influenced by

Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Plato, Johann Gottfried Herder, Jakob Böhme, Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer

main interest

Aesthetics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of religion, Natural science, Naturphilosophie

notableIdea

Identity (philosophy)

philosophicalSchool

German idealism