Can We Be Both Free and Unfree?
On Friedrich Schelling and His Paradoxical System
One of the questions that the philosopher Friedrich Schelling asks is how the world can be a system defined by both logical necessity and personal freedom. If everything exists for a reason, there is no contingency, no serendipity, no caprice, no surprise, no natality. On the other hand, if there is no reason or logical integrity to the world, how could…
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