Eduard von Hartmann as an unknown Schelling’s follower

Abstract

This article is devoted to the problem of the deep conceptual kinship between the metaphysical systems of F.Schelling and E.v.Hartmann. The author compares their doctrines concerning self-realization of the unconscious absolute in mankind, the volitional and logical basis of the absolute, and some other ideas. On these grounds he discovers that a number of important concepts and ideas of von Hartmann’s philosophy of the unconscious have their roots in Schelling’s late philosophical works. This permits us to consider von Hartmann’s thought as a particular modifi cation of Neo-Schellingianism and inscribe it in the wide circle of systems close to German idealism.