Freedom and Ground: A Study of Schelling’s Treatise on Freedom, by Mark J. Thomas

Abstract

There are few careers in the history of philosophy that are as long lived or as prolific as that of F.W.J. Schelling; and in the midst of that uniquely prolific career, hardly any work that can more fittingly claim the title of watershed moment than his 1809 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and the Objects Therewith Connected. With his outstanding piece of scholarship, Mark J. Thomas, who has for years wrestled with the depths of this notoriously challenging work, has now done an invaluable service to anyone wishing to share in its heights.