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Portrait of F. W. J. Schelling

Long 19th c. · 1775–1854

Who influenced F. W. J. Schelling?

Influences and legacy

Nature as visible spirit — romantic philosophy of identity and art.

F. W. J. Schelling was influenced by Baruch Spinoza and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and went on to influence Georg W. F. Hegel, Pyotr Chaadayev, Søren Kierkegaard and Vladimir Solovyov. That is 6 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was F. W. J. Schelling?

Histories of philosophy usually place Friedrich Schelling at the midpoint of German idealism, between Fichte, his early mentor, and Hegel, once his university roommate and friend and later his rival. His thought kept changing, which makes it hard to interpret.

Hegel's later dominance, and his portrait of Schelling as a footnote, left Schelling neglected, especially in the English-speaking world. Scientists also attacked his philosophy of nature for reasoning by analogy instead of observation. Some later philosophers have returned to his work.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced F. W. J. Schelling?

2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

Who did F. W. J. Schelling influence?

4 thinkers on this map draw directly on F. W. J. Schelling.

The line of teachers behind F. W. J. Schelling

The longest documented line of influence ending at F. W. J. Schelling runs 21 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling

Two steps away from F. W. J. Schelling

Indirect influences

The second generation

Contemporaries of F. W. J. Schelling

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of F. W. J. Schelling, with no direct line between them.

F. W. J. Schelling by the numbers

Direct influences
2
Direct followers
4 — #27 of 279 on this map
Thinkers upstream
83
Thinkers downstream
76
Wikipedia languages
71 — #25 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Schools and lineages

Questions about F. W. J. Schelling

Who influenced F. W. J. Schelling?
Baruch Spinoza and Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
Who did F. W. J. Schelling influence?
Georg W. F. Hegel, Pyotr Chaadayev, Søren Kierkegaard and Vladimir Solovyov.
When did F. W. J. Schelling live?
1775–1854. The map files F. W. J. Schelling under the long 19th century.
How rare is the F. W. J. Schelling card?
Wikipedia carries an article on F. W. J. Schelling in 71 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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