Realistic emphasis
Ontological fluency
Material assistance
The belief in an external reality arises and grows with self awareness. Because the self is as necessary as the other, these beliefs are not speculatively separated. In their fullest, most intimate co-operation they are the mental elements of human life and its activity.
“The provincialism of time may be conquered only in the realm of mind.” – Edgar Sheffield Brightman
Spiritual thoughts
Corporeal works
Productive force
Philosophy must understand the manifestation of ideas through particular things, with the history of art as a series of variously emphasized relations of the real to the ideal. Art is the positive objectification of the spirit of nature that is within human beings, analogous to nature’s own generation of phenomena, a crystalline, symmetrical totality.
“By what power is the soul created together with the body, at once and as if with one breath?” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Real ideal
Existence appearance
Matter within the mind
For Schelling, an achieved work of art is the embodiment of the ideal within the real, not merely something through which the mind recognizes its own powers of judgment. This position is in response to Kant’s sole aesthetic interest only involving judgment. Kant’s aesthetics is never derived from things in the world, but rather concerned with transcendental faculties of the mind.
“Matter, in our view, is an aggregate of ‘images.’ And by ‘image’ we mean a certain existence which is more than that which the idealist calls a representation, but less than that which the realist calls a thing–an existence placed half-way between the `thing’ and the ‘representation.’.” – Henri Bergson
Affecting stimuli
Aroma conscience
Volatilized compounds
Many overt messages that quickly pass-by on an urban exploration are value propositions of dubious esteem. Only actions that are freely willed are seen as deserving credit or blame.
“Each day has a color, a smell.” – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Coefficient affinity
Situated in relation
Introduced extension
There exists a tension between the conceptual as manifest in art and the incipient foundation of unconscious elements. Within a dispersed finite existence, self-identity provides an indirect conduit to the ineffable.
“All means are sacred when they are dictated by inner necessity.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Overall sympathy
External contingencies
Unbounded reserve
The reality and ultimacy of nature approached from an idealistic perspective builds upon a model of human freedom. Part of the puzzle centers on the praxis of creative intuition as a function of action. In such productive matters, nature functions as both the ground and antithesis of spirit. Within the empirical objects of perception there exists an inexhaustible reservoir of enigmatic potential.
“An intelligent being bears within himself the means to transcend his own nature.” – Henri Bergson
Complete interpenetration
Mutual informing
Real and ideal
Aesthetic idealism and beauty is at the centre of Schelling’s philosophical inquiry. His interrogation functions as an organic view of nature that depends on creative intuition. As such, the conditions of possibility are interrelated by means of unity.
“The forms of art must be the forms of things as they are within the absolute or in themselves.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Transmitted theory
Immediately eternal
Visible form
Contact with existence is oblique and vicarious. The reality of the particular never completely corresponds to the possibility inherent within its absolute existence. All objects are more than their mutual associations and exceed their appearances.
“The philosophy of art is a necessary goal of the philosopher, who in art views the inner essence of his own discipline as if in a magic and symbolic mirror.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Etch history
Final statement
Ephemeral interval
Unending subdivisions of both space and time produce ideas of infinitesimal and infinite processes. Aesthetics embraces a view of the universe that includes some uncertainty and mystery, while investing in time wisely.
“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.” – Clifford D. Simak
Unconditional absolute
Infinitely emergent
Things internally
Art seeks the essence of experience indirectly through the unity of subject and object. In beauty, maximum freedom conceives and comprehends itself within operational necessity.
“Art is an absolute synthesis or mutual interpenetration of freedom and necessity.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling