TESTI / Hans Jörg Sandkühler
Schelling’s Philosophy of History
The ‘big certainties’ were destroyed during Schelling’s life. This destruction was caused by the development of the critic philosophy (also ‘anti-philosophy’ for Feuerbach) on one hand and of the consequent and complementary critic empiricism on the other. That led to the failure of sciences in the comprehension of the status of ‘facts’. Since the philosophy was no more able to guarantee the truth neither by the Absolute nor by the ‘fact itself’, the narrative history replaced the speculative one. That was also the time of the passage from the philosophy of history to the historiography, from the philosophy of religion to the history of religion, from the philosophy of art to the history of art. Since the Weltalter, but above all with his Philosophie der Mythologie, Schelling was one of the proponents of this passage. The ‘historicity’ was in fact a very important issue of his thought. He was a great analytic philosopher of the historicity of the whole existence.
