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Man's Oneness with Nature

Man's Oneness with Nature
Schelling maintained that human beings have emerged from Nature and continue to be a part of ongoing process that occur within it. the figure continue to be a part of the ongoing process that occur within it. the figure Samuel Palmer's (1805-81) painting The Magic Apple Tree blends in with her surroundings as harmoniously as the animals and plants around her.
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 Dinesh
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Of Schelling’s various philosophies, the best known and most influential was his so-called philosophy of Nature. It was partly a reaction against Fichte. Fichte had posited a universe of lifeless matter as the separate creation of living self; by Schelling said that on the contrary, all life was a creation of Nature, which had at one time been a world of lifeless matter. Schelling put forward a picture in which Nature was total reality, perpetually evolving. At first it had been nothing but dead matter; but then life had emerged within it and began to develop, first of all as plants, then as animals too, and finally in human form. There are several points to stress which this picture. First, Nature is a unity. Second, Nature is not a state of affairs but a process, always on going. Third, human beings have emerged within this process as an integral part of it. Life is not separate from matter, expressive of some principle that is in opposition to it: the two are continuous with one another, different aspects of a single process. Thus man does not exist outside the world, as if somehow stnding against Nature, which is how the Enlightenment had tended to see him: he is simply a part of Nat6ure. Man is matter spiritualized. But to say this is to say that matter by itself is potential spirit, latent spirit, and this is how Schelling saw it. ~ Page 156
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