POSITION OF ART IN SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

The main intention of this paper is explanation of Schelling’s idea of art, through examination of his philosophical system and philosophy of art, as one of its forms. Schelling understands the idea of art as a key connection point between the nature and the freedom. He explains the nature as the spirit that’s visible, and the spirit as the nature that’s invisible. Philosophy of art is the peak of philosophical knowledge, because the art overgrows the difference between theoretical and practical knowledge. Philosophy is not able to represent nature in itself, because it streams through rationality in order to reach the irational. Beauty, in the other hand, makes an expression of infinity in finite form – art has its own purpose in itself. Art can express what the theory is not able to – because it’s not dependable of an object that must be expressed by terms. But the question remains: can philosophy comprehend the form of spirit that overgrows her own boundaries?