Translator's Preface

Acknowledgements

Translator's Introduction 1

Reassessing Schelling 1

Mind and Nature 3

Identity and Difference 13

Schelling and Hegel 23

References 35

[Introduction] 41

Descartes 42

Comparison of Bacon and Descartes 61

Spinoza, Leibniz, and Wolff 64

Spinoza 64

Leibniz 75

Wolff 84

Kant, Fichte, and the System of Transcendental Idealism 94

Kant 94

Fichte 106

The Philosophy of Nature (Naturphilosophie) 114

Hegel 134

Supplement from an Older (Erlangen) Manuscript 161

Jacobi and Theosophy 164

Jacobi 164

On National Differences in Philosophy 186

Index