Index

absolute 6, 56, 72, 75, 78, 81, 84, 87, 89, 90, 91, 96, 100-1

absolute knowing 89, 90, 96, 98, 99-106, 107-9, 157, 174

abyss (Abgrund) 4-5, 33, 43-4, 78-9, 83, 96, 128, 145, 177

Adorno, Theodor 83, 179

animality 38, 112, 115, 129

anthropomorphism 41, 118, 192 see also humanity

Aristotle 98

art 65, 68-70, 79, 91

Augustine of Hippo 2, 141

Badiou, Alain 162

Beiser, Frederick 188

Benedict XVI 1

Berkeley, George 110

Brown, John 50, 52, 184, 190

Burbidge, John 164

Collins, Ardis 190, 191

Dahlstrom, Daniel 190, 191

de Boer, Karin 186

Deleuze, Gilles 123

demand (Forderung) 66-7, 178

Derrida, Jacques 1

Descartes, René 24, 57, 65

dialectic 4, 19, 63-4, 78, 97, 99, 108, 157, 159-60

di Giovanni, George 181

disease see sickness

dogmatic transcendent idealism 62, 166-7

Düsing, Klaus 108

electromagnetism 33, 34, 39, 53, 54, 113, 186

Eschenmayer, Adam Karl August 142-3, 145-6, 186

Esposito, Joseph 187, 188

evil 126, 127, 135, 136, 139, 147-57, 177

evolution 30, 51, 74, 184

excitability (Erregbarkeit) 50-2, 114-16

externalization 29, 102-3, 105, 120, 129, 163, 181

fanaticism (Schwärmerei) 10, 78

feelings 67, 78, 136

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb

alterity 63, 65, 75-8, 136, 170

Anstoss 31, 32, 41, 77, 194

dogmatism and idealism 18-20, 23-4, 43, 53, 59, 76

freedom 29, 67, 141, 151

striving 2, 17-18, 30, 32, 50, 56, 58, 98, 101, 104

Wissenschaftslehre (term) 180

force (Kraft) 12, 15, 17, 29, 30, 33, 39-40, 43-4, 48, 50, 63, 87, 97, 127, 137, 148, 177, 188, 194

forgetting 65, 106, 118, 134

Gadamer, Hans-Georg 123

Gasché, Rodolphe 15

genius 15-17, 69-70

God 27, 45, 50, 68-9, 89-93, 97, 107, 136-56, 187

Gore, Al 1

gravity 38, 39, 44-5, 87, 143, 152, 154, 183, 192

grounding urge vs. guiding urge 35-41, 47, 138, 154

Hamann, Johann Georg 108

Harris, H. S. 188

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Difference Between Fichte and Schelling’s System of Philosophy 71-80, 89, 93, 97, 108, 110, 139, 176, 186, 188

Encyclopedia Logic 159, 160

Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature 34, 104, 162-5, 188

Faith and Knowledge 94

“Guidelines for the Journal of German Literature” 95

Jena Philosophy of Spirit 95, 190

Krug’s pen essay 80-2

Lectures on Aesthetics 180

Lectures on the History of Philosophy 5, 182

Lectures on the Philosophy of History 161-2, 165-7

Phenomenology of Spirit 4, 80, 81, 84, 94-134, 136, 139, 156-7, 158, 163-4, 171, 173, 176, 181, 190

Philosophy of Right 162, 167

Science of Logic 64, 103, 110, 159, 160, 163, 170, 192-3

Heidegger, Martin 4, 30, 41

Hempel, Carl 112, 190

Herder, Johann Gottfried 6, 94, 108

history 30, 63, 68-70, 105-6, 107, 110, 131, 165-7

Hölderlin, Friedrich 4, 6

Houlgate, Stephen 189

humanity 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13-14, 17, 18, 26-8, 30, 31, 33, 36, 41, 45-6, 56, 77, 88, 147, 150, 169, 186

Hume, David 10, 112

hylozoism 42, 48

Hyppolite, Jean 123, 188, 189

imagination 11-17, 26, 28, 31, 48, 73, 76, 84, 90, 108, 182

indifference 6, 52, 55, 56, 79, 87, 94, 99, 112, 123, 154-7, 175-8, 186

inhibition 24, 34, 46-55, 59, 63, 81, 114, 183-4

intuition

faculty of 16, 19-21, 26-9, 36, 48, 56, 62, 92

intellectual 11, 18, 21, 23, 64, 78, 180, 185

productive 63-4, 65, 185

Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich 6, 83, 95

Kant, Immanuel

Critique of Judgment 12-17, 43, 45, 47-8, 53, 170, 183

Critique of Practical Reason 12, 13, 67

Critique of Pure Reason 2, 10-12, 72, 90, 92, 136, 145, 170, 185

moral law 24, 25, 67, 132-3, 147

Kepler, Johannes 107

Kielmeyer, Carl Friedrich 50

Kierkegaard, Søren 6, 32, 185

Kojève, Alexandre 123

Krell, David Farrell 184, 189

Krug, Wilhelm Traugott 80-2

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 51

Lavoisier, Antoine 33

law of the heart 125-7, 130

Lawrence, Joseph 191-2

Leibniz, Gottfried 28-9, 68, 136-7, 140, 141-2, 148, 150, 153, 166

le Sage, George Louis 40

light 44, 87, 91, 143, 146-8, 152, 154, 183, 192

longing (Sehnsucht, Verlangen) 41, 71, 108, 142, 144, 146, 149, 150, 155, 192

MacIntyre, Alasdair 2

Maker, William 189, 193

Marcuse, Herbert 123

matter 30-1, 37-40, 42-4, 48, 52, 57, 63, 78, 113, 123, 146, 148, 152, 185

Murray, Michael 189

Newton, Isaac 30, 33, 38, 39, 40, 143

Nietzsche, Friedrich 2, 83

“night in which all cows are black” 6, 91, 96, 154-6, 188

Oersted, Hans Christian 34

organism

as metaphor for reason 8, 32, 36, 129, 138, 189

as object of reason 34, 38-9, 63, 65, 112, 123, 124, 171

structured by drives 41-2, 48-57, 114-18, 184

universal organism 8, 36

owl of Minerva 167

perversity (Verkehrtheit) 4, 71, 107, 126-8, 133, 135, 140, 148-50, 152, 154, 159, 173, 176, 186

phrenology 120-5, 191

physiognomy 120-1, 191

Pippen, Robert 192-3

plants 50, 112, 171, 184, 188, 190, 194

Plato

Gorgias 1

Phaedo 166

Symposium 155

Timaeus 146, 192

play 97, 107, 116-17, 128-32, 178

poison 8, 51, 54, 107

postulate 13, 14, 16, 24, 43, 47

pseuduoscience 6, 34, 120, 191

pure law 113

quickening (Beleben) 13, 17, 47, 146

reason

“cunning of” 7, 128, 160-2

definition 11-12, 44, 73, 159, 182

observing 110-24, 129, 132, 178, 190

as “Sabbath of nature” 45, 173

as striving 35-7, 39, 40, 48, 74, 84, 107, 138, 149, 175, 178, 194

suspension of 2, 3-5, 7, 14, 56, 70, 78-9, 82, 99, 105-9, 124, 134, 135, 154, 157, 161, 168-78, 194

theoretical vs. practical 4, 20, 25, 26, 31-2, 47, 59-60, 64-5, 76, 171-2

and totalization 7, 84-5, 166-72, 177

recollection 100, 106, 112, 123, 160

reflection 37, 72-9, 92, 97, 110

Reinhold, Karl Leonhard 6, 31

Ryle, Gilbert 37

sacrifice 103, 109, 127, 134, 174, 189

Sanger, Margaret 107

Sallis, John 15, 156

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph

Ages of the World 164, 168-9

“Aphorisms on the Philosophy of Nature” 188

Erlangen Lectures 135, 176, 185

First Projection of a System of Nature Philosophy 34, 41, 46-55, 63, 114-16, 138, 184, 190

Freedom essay 8, 36, 41, 58, 62, 84, 86, 128, 135-57, 168, 173, 176-7, 185

Grounding of the Positive Philosophy 168-75, 194

Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature 34-42, 43, 46, 54, 58, 138, 182

Identity Philosophy 7, 36, 83-93, 94-7, 101, 105, 135, 136, 139, 146, 147, 149, 155, 168, 173, 178, 181, 183, 192

Lectures on the History of Recent

Philosophy (Munich Lectures) 31-2, 58, 63, 172-3, 183, 193, 194, 195

Lectures on the Philosophy of Art 192

Lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology 175

Of the I 22-6, 59, 65, 145, 180

On the Worldsoul 34, 42-6, 93, 138, 184

Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism 83

Philosophy and Religion 57-8, 185

Presentation (Darstellung) of my System of Philosophy 58, 83-8, 136, 145, 173, 186, 188, 192

Stuttgart Seminars 189

System of Philosophy in General 83, 86, 88-93

System of Transcendental Idealism 18, 34, 56-70, 71, 78, 83, 84, 97, 99, 108, 124, 136, 138, 141, 164, 173, 178, 186

Timaeus essay 22

“Treatises on the Idealism of the Wissenschaftslehre” 26-32, 43, 47, 64

Schiller, Friedrich 108

Schlegel, Friedrich 188

second nature 15-16, 63, 65, 66, 69, 113-14, 117, 170-1

Sellars, Wilfrid 170

sex 49-50, 55, 183-4

sickness 3, 6-41, 54-5, 140, 146-50, 152, 176-7, 184, 192

space 3, 27, 43, 77, 104-5, 135, 176-8, 183

speculation 72-9, 97

Spinoza, Baruch

conatus 24, 40-1, 148, 181

geometric method 84

identity 85-6, 89, 188

mechanism 139-40

modes of God 45, 92, 138, 141

natura naturans and natura naturata 27, 49, 89, 187

spiritual animal kingdom 129-32

synthetic method 63-4, 67, 71, 78, 92, 95, 178

Taylor, Charles 123

Tillich, Paul 192

Tilliette, Xavier 187

time 3, 27, 30, 44, 58, 77, 84-7, 98-9, 101, 104-5, 108, 152, 164, 176, 178, 185

unground 154-7

Westphal, Merold 189

Wharton, Edith 177

whirlpool 48, 62, 151

Williams, Robert 179

Wirth, Jason 192

Yovel, Yirmiahu 193