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Door to Nowhere

Illuminated moment
Quintessential tracks
Lilting grace

Something cannot come from nothing, indicting that an aspect of being must exist in a permanent absolute form. Logically, something that is permanent cannot transform into something else without its subsequent termination. Therefore, the shifting duality that arises within the absolute itself is a self-distinction of the indivisible absoluteness into subject and object.

“All things now being marked with the names of light and of darkness, Yea, set apart by the various powers of the one or the other, Surely the All is at once full of light and invisible darkness, Both being equal, and naught being common to one with the other.” – Parmenides

Synthesis Equalizes

Principle of spontaneity
Tends to infinity
Limiting nature

Schelling’s philosophy of nature builds a process stack in which individual items initially seem independent and unrelated, but which in truth function within a relative totality. His thought stands in opposition to the Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles.

“Insofar as we regard the totality of objects not merely as a product, but at the same time necessarily as productive, it becomes Nature for us, and this identity of the product and the productivity, and this alone, is implied by the idea of Nature, even in the ordinary use of language.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Animated Nights

Made memories
Wild vitality
Slip away

Schelling explores succession in a way analogous to Bergson’s duration. The question is not whether and how the assemblage of phenomena and the series of causes and effects, which we call the course of nature, has become actual outside us. The question rather relates to how succession becomes manifest for us.

“It is impossible to distinguish between the duration, however short it may be, that separates two instants and a memory that connects them, because duration is essentially a continuation of what no longer exists into what does exist.” – Henri Bergson

Fit All

Phenomenal level
Domain of the real
Immediate consciousness

For Schelling, primordial knowledge itself is equivalent to intellectual intuition. Such knowledge is identical with its object, as the subject becomes aware of itself. Pure space and time are not perceived in the ordinary consciousness, but are rather grasped through intellectual intuition in the unconsciousness.

“We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.” – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Yellow Foxtail

Seed head
Dispersal unit
Adaptable grass

An active interest in scientific learning helps to develop the creative imagination, that intuitive vision in which the particular adapts to the universal. True scientific inquiry recognizes possibilities, whereas common sense grasps only apparent realities.

“The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes; it changes behind your back.” – Terry Hayes

Conditions of Duration

Extensive magnitude
Sensations yielded
Inner multiplicity

As they unfold themselves in duration, states of consciousness are not operative in isolation, but rather proceed in tangible multiplicity.

“No state once gone can recur and be identical with what it was before.” – William James

Extensity Relations

States of consciousness
Even when successive
Permeate one another

When exercising the mental faculty of acquiring knowledge, by either direct observation or by understanding, the True and the Good are united in the Beautiful. In actuality, the philosopher must possess just as much aesthetic power as the poet.

“Theoretically the part played by consciousness in external perception would be to join together, by the continuous thread of memory, instantaneous visions of the real.” – Henri Bergson

Out in the Street

All that we see
Consciousness
Unbounded

Schelling desires to expand the Kantian project of freedom via Critical Idealism by including emotional and volitional processes in concert with cognition. Broadly speaking, cognition is the mental process of acquiring comprehension and knowledge through the senses, through thought, and through experience as durational succession. The genuine philosopher rebels against being the prisoner of any system.

“Our intelligence, looking for fixity, masks the flow of time by conceiving it as a juxtaposition of ‘instants’ on a line.” – Leon Jacobson

Comfort Rain

Wet street
Sky grayness
Moisture in the air

Out my front door the evening the rain falls. While cars come and go across the ocular range, a newly configured optical device shows distinctive render attributes. The ground of all phenomena originates in the diversity of the peculiar proportion of their mixture.

“The meteorological phenomena are all without a doubt manifestations of processes through which they are always rejuvenated and replenished anew.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Redundantly Disparate

Urban mapping
Define context
Private view

Truth is the stuff of our own mental construction. Meanwhile, the unresolved nature of existence is a large component of its authority.

“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling – in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.” – Kasimir Malevich

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