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Schel·ling

 (shĕl′ĭng), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775-1854.
German idealist philosopher whose theories of the self, nature, and art influenced romanticism and to a degree presaged existentialism.
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Schelling

(German ˈʃɛlɪŋ)
n
(Biography) Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈjoːzɛf fɔn). 1775–1854, German philosopher. He expanded Fichte's idea that there is one reality, the infinite and absolute Ego, by regarding nature as an absolute being working towards self-consciousness. His works include Ideas towards a Philosophy of Nature (1797) and System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)
Schellingian adj
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Schel•ling

(ˈʃɛl ɪŋ)

n.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775–1854, German philosopher.
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Of late in Moscow and in the country, since he had become convinced that he would find no solution in the materialists, he had read and reread thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life.
Besides that, he sent greetings to Monsieur Schelling, Madame Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him "dear Sonya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever." When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.
His main interest, however, was now in philosophy; perhaps no Englishman has ever had a more profoundly philosophical mind; and through scattered writings and through his stimulating though prolix talks to friends and disciples he performed a very great service to English thought by introducing the viewpoint and ideas of the German transcendentalists, such as Kant, Schelling, and Fichte.
The Bacon, the Spinoza, the Hume, Schelling, Kant, or whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness which you have also your way of seeing, perhaps of denominating.
All the value which attaches to Pythagoras, Paracelsus, Cornelius Agrippa, Cardan, Kepler, Swedenborg, Schelling, Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony, as angels, devils, magic, astrology, palmistry, mesmerism, and so on, is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
Schelling's Critique of Spinoza's Necessitarianism in the Freedom Essay, FRANZ KNAPPIK
Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas, said seven activists including him who hadn't left the town after the meeting reached the IHOP on Elliston Place around 11 a.m.
"Most Americans today have an expectation that they can seamlessly do something on their mobile device really quickly, no matter what it is," said Eric Schelling, Home Depot's senior director of talent acquisition.
While this reconceptualization of nature has largely been led by natural scientists and environmental theorists and activists, this paper argues that Friedrich Schelling provides the best and earliest model for rethinking nature in the Anthropocene.
Sin embargo, de acuerdo con Schelling (1971), el resultado agregado de la interaccion de personas con este tipo de preferencias lleva a la formacion de patrones de segregacion mayores que las preferencias de segregacion originales de cada individuo.