Elements existing
Individual objects
Particular universal
Choice is conditioned by natural inclination emanating from ambient conditions. For this reason, Schelling prefers an idealistically motivated realism that preserves complex phenomena over any metaphysical idealism which would reduce and simplify the richness of experience.
“Artists do not isolate their concepts or free them in pure abstraction from all traces of other mental elements. They exist buried in the general mixed content of consciousness.” – W.T. Stace