Schelling

American  

[shel-ing] / ˈʃɛl ɪŋ /

noun

1. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775–1854, German philosopher.

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Schelling British  

/ ʃɛˈlɪŋɪən, ˈʃɛlɪŋ /

noun

1. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈjoːzɛf fɔn). 1775–1854, German philosopher. He expanded Fichte's idea that there is one reality, the infinite and absolute Ego, by regarding nature as an absolute being working towards self-consciousness. His works include Ideas towards a Philosophy of Nature (1797) and System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)

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Other Word Forms

• Schellingian adjective
• Schellingianism noun
• Schellingism noun

Example Sentences

But when asked in a 2001 interview if the checkerboard model devised by Sakoda had influenced him, Schelling replied, “I have never heard of him.”

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

A few years later, another great Romantic, Friedrich Schelling, would take the lectern at the same university.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

National security scholars such as Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin developed the concept of arms control in the late 1950s and early 1960s amid an accelerating U.S.-Soviet arms race.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2022

Schelling did tell McNaughton that, whatever they decided to do, it would work within three weeks or not at all.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2021

Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation’s foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called “frozen music.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson