Positive philosophy
Positive philosophy is a term coined by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854) for what is naturally positive. As a philosophical construct, this positive contrasts with the positivism of Auguste Comte (1798–1857) insofar as Schelling's positivism - or his positive philosophy - is theosophical in nature. Schelling's positive philosophy leads to the knowledge of God based on the experience of his work, as it is accessible in mythology and religion (revelation). In the sense of Gnosticism , Schelling understands mythology and revelation as world processes that take place in humans independently of individual consciousness. Positive philosophy incorporates the irrational of revelation into its teaching. The previous purely conceptual thinking determined by the 'negative philosophy' is, according to Schelling, overcome by the positive philosophy by eliminating the split between subject and object . This takes place in a similar way to the process of identity philosophy in that the ›point of indifference‹ is to be determined, from which the subjective and the objective can be brought into congruence. The individual thing that the natural world view regards as the concrete is only the negation of that which “actually” and unsplit exists.
history
In 1841 Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Schelling appointed professor to Berlin. There he should eliminate Hegelianism through a Christian philosophy. But the success that Schelling had had earlier now failed to materialize; Schelling's "positive" philosophy received no real attention, since it was misunderstood as an outmoded political philosophy in the sense of the Restoration . This and a trial with the theologian Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus (1761–1851), which turned out to be to his disadvantage, led Schelling to resign from his teaching position.
reception
CG Jung regards the instinctive-archaic basis of our mind as an objective, found fact that depends neither on individual experience nor on subjective-personal arbitrariness. He compares this fact to the inherited structure and functional disposition of the brain or any other organ. Just as the body has its ontogeny , the various stages of which have left clear traces, so does the psyche. This is how Jung judges the myth based on unconscious fantasy processes . He creates a worldview that hardly corresponds to our rational and objective views. However, imaginary thinking also contains all shades of conscious and unconscious content. Schelling considers the preconscious to be the creative source, as does Johann Gottlieb Fichte .
literature
Constantin Frantz : Schelling's positive philosophy. 1880
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Große Brockhaus: compact edition in 26 volumes . Wiesbaden, Brockhaus 18 1983, ISBN 3-7653-0353-4 ; Volume 17, page 193
- ↑ Eisler, Rudolf : Historical Dictionary of Philosophy ( HWPh ). Completely revised edition of the ›Dictionary of Philosophical Terms‹ by Rudolf Eisler. [1904], ed. by Joachim Ritter (†) and Karlfried Gründer , by Schwabe & Co, Basel, Stuttgart; © 1976; ISBN 3-7965-0115-X (for the complete works); Volume 4 (IK); Stw. "Identity Philosophy" Column 151–152
- ↑ Schelling's curriculum vitae (text log)
- ↑ Hans Joachim Störig : World history of philosophy . W. Kohlhammer Stuttgart 1984; Page 463 f.
- ↑ Jung, Carl Gustav : The spirit of psychology .
- ↑ Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von : Philosophy of Mythology II (online)
- ^ Fichte, Johann Gottlieb : Psychologie I, page 508 ff.
- ↑ Peetz, Siegbert : The philosophy of mythology . In: FWJ Schelling. Edited by Hans Jörg Sandkühler . JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1998, page 156.
- ↑ Jung, Carl Gustav : Symbols of Change . Analysis of foreplay to schizophrenia. Collected Works Volume 5, Part One. About two ways of thinking. Sections 38 f., ISBN 3-530-40080-7