Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Transcendental philosophy and Natural philosophy. Contemplative Self
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was born in Leonberg in 1775 and educated in Tübingen, where he became friends with Hegel and Hölderlin. In 1793 he met Fichte, came under his influence, and published several works written in a Fichtean vein. True, they already showed a number of tendencies that later gave rise to Schelling’s original philosophy. He developed an interest in Spinoza, and Schelling later said that he saw his merit in combining Spinoza’s “realistic” doctrine of nature with Fichte’s dynamic idealism.