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Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Human Freedom
註釋Presents a study of Human Freedom. This edition also features a Publisher's Note which provides summary details about the life and work of thinker Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, as well as an Author's Foreword, in which von Schelling anticipates the topics of his discussion and defends his personal standpoint. "The whole of knowledge has no status if it is not supported by some thing which maintains itself by its own power, and this is nothing but that which is real through Freedom. The beginning and end of all philosophy is - Freedom." - F.W.J. von Schelling. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling's "Philosophical Investigations" is one of the most outstanding studies of Human Freedom ever written. The "Investigations" are essential reading for all students of the Romantic movement and of Post-Kantian thought, and of particular interest when read in conjunction with Arthur Schopenhauer's "On the Freedom of the Will" with which this work so completely disagrees in its philosophical standpoint. Von Schelling's work will be of especial interest to students of Jakob Bohme (Jacob Behmen), whose idea of the "Groundless" has manifestly had a very significant influence upon this author. Although von Schelling's essay is a continuous whole, the editors of the present translation have made obvious divisions of the text so as to improve the reader's comprehension of the argument