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Article: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
The German idealist and romantic philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) developed a metaphysical system based on the philosophy of nature.
Born in W
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rttemberg on Jan. 27, 1775, the son of a learned Lutheran pastor, F. W. J. von Schelling was educated at the theological seminary at T
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bingen. He became friends with two older classmates, G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich H
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lderlin, and shared their ardent support of the French Revolution. Schelling read widely in the philosophies of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. His first two treatises,
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