schelling
Speech parts
1. schelling - Noun
2. Schelling - Proper noun
Meaning
schelling (plural schellings)
(now historical) A silver coin formerly current in the Low Countries.
Schelling (plural Schellings)
A surname.
Synonyms
Examples
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), his student Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826) and several others believed that there was a hidden and innate mathematical order in the forms of birds.
The German Idealists Fichte and Schelling, for example, tried to bring traditional "metaphysically" laden notions like "the Absolute", "God", and "Being" into the scope of Kant's critical thought.
Authorities searched several areas in Pueblo for three days, but the search yielded no signs of Schelling.
He is notable for coining the term nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought particularly in the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte and Friedrich Schelling.
In 1802, Schelling and Hegel founded a journal, the Kritische Journal der Philosophie ("Critical Journal of Philosophy"), to which they each contributed pieces until the collaboration was ended when Schelling left for Würzburg in 1803.
Definition and terminology Friedrich Schelling coined the term henotheism, from heis which literally means "single, one".