Author: WANG Ding, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University.
Abstract:
In his final stage, Schelling introduced the distinction between “positive philosophy” and “negative philosophy,” and explained specifically that his “positive philosophy” includes both “philosophy of mythology” and “philosophy of revelation.” In a narrow sense, Christianity is the subject of a “philosophy of revelation,” but in a broader sense, the entire “positive philosophy” can be regarded as the “Philosophy of Christianity.” Having said this, Schelling, however, repeatedly stressed that what he wanted to do was not a philosophical exposition of Christian doctrine, but rather a kind of examination of Christianity as a “grand historical event of the world” “towards the thing itself.” This paper argues that it is necessary to investigate in what sense a “philosophy of revelation” is a kind of “Philosophy of Christianity,” and what role Christianity played in Schelling’s later philosophy.
Keywords:
principle, nihilism, system, a priori proof, Christianity
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