‘From Time Into Eternity’: Schelling on Intellectual Intuition

Abstract

Throughout his career, Schelling assigns knowledge of the absolute first principle of philosophy to intellectual intuition.Schelling's doctrine of intellectual intuition raises two important questions for interpreters. First, given that his doctrine undergoes several changes before and after his identity philosophy, to what extent can he be said to "hold onto" the same "sense" of it by the 1830s, as he claims? Second, given that his doctrine of intellectual intuition restricts absolute idealism to what he calls a "science of reason", which he says cannot prove the absolute's existence, what other doctrine does he require in order to prove this? I will answer these questions by tracing the shifts in Schelling's doctrine of intellectual intuition from the 1790s to the 1830s and drawing out its evolving methodological role within his science of intelligibility.

Schelling on freedom, evil and imputation: A puzzle

“…6 6 I am here using the terminology of “intellectualism” in the way it is used in debates concerning choice and freedom; it is not a reference to the thesis that intellectual intuition is the source of our knowledge of the absolute. For a discussion of this other debate, see, for example, Bruno (2023). …”