Translators' Introduction
INTRODUCTION
THE NECESSITY OF A HISTORICAL THINKING
1. Schelling's Treatise as the Peak of the Metaphysics of German Idealism
2. Historical Thinking, Historiographic Explanation, Systematic Reflection
3. Elucidations of the Title of the Treatise
4. The Organization of the Treatise
5. Brief Excursus on a Further Misgiving (the Historiographic - the Current - That Which Has Been)
PART I
PRELIMINARY REFLECTION ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN GROUND AND EXISTENCE
6. The Core Section of the Treatise: The Distinction between Essence Insofar as It Exists and Essence Insofar as it Is Merely Ground of Existence
7. The Organization of the Preliminary Reflection
First Chapter
The Conceptual-Historical Elucidation of Ground and Existence
8. Essentia and Existentia
9. "Existence" and "Philosophy of Existence" (K. Jaspers)
10. Kierkegaard's Concept of Existence
11. Kierkegaard, "Philosophy of Existence," and Being and Time (1927)
a) What Occasion Is There for Classifying Being and Time as "Philosophy of Existence"?
) Analytic of Existence
) Existence - As Understood in the Sense of Kierkegaard's Restriction of It
) Philosophy of Anxiety, of the Nothing, of Death, of Care . . .
) Philosophical Anthropology
b) Rejection of the Classification of Being and Time as Philosophy of Existence by Way of an Elucidation of the Concepts of Existence and Da-sein (Elucidations of Being and Time)
) Existence and Dasein as Meaning "Actuality in General" (As Understood in Traditional Usage of Language)
) Dasein as the Bodily-Psychic-Rational Being-Actual of the Human, and Existence as the Subjectivity of Self-Being (Jaspers)
) "Existentiell" and "Existential" Concepts of Existence
) "Understanding of Being" as the Decisive Determination of Dasein and Existence in Being and Time
) Dasein, Temporality, and Time
) Temporality, Da-sein, Existence
) Anxiety, Death, Guilt, the Nothing within the Realm of Questioning in Being and Time
) The "Essence" of Da-sein
) Understanding of Being, and Being
) Being and the Human - Anthropomorphism
12. Preliminary Interpretation of Schelling's Concept of Existence
13. The Inceptive Impetuses Determining the Essence of Ground and Their Historical Transformation
Second Chapter
The Root of Schelling's Distinction between Ground and Existence
14. Elucidation of the Essential Determination of Being as Willing
a) The Essential Predicates of Being
) Ground-lessness
) Eternity
) Independence from Time
) Self-Affirmation
b) Justification of the Predicates of Being
c) In What Way Willing Is Sufficient for the Predicates of Being
d) Being in Its Highest and Ultimate Jurisdiction
15. Being as Willing as the Root of the Distinction between Ground and Existence
Third Chapter
The Inner Necessity of Schelling's Distinction between Ground and Existence
Fourth Chapter
The Various Formulations of Schelling's Distinction between Ground and Existence
16. The Proper Aim of the Interpretation of the Freedom Treatise: Reaching the Fundamental Position of the Metaphysics of German Idealism. Evil and the System
17. Transition from the Preliminary Reflection to the Interpretation of the Core Section of the Treatise and of the Latter Itself
PART II
AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CORE SECTION, "THE ELUCIDATION OF THE DISTINCTION" BETWEEN GROUND AND EXISTENCE
18. The "Elucidation of the Distinction" as the Presentation of Beings as a Whole (God, World, Human)
First Chapter
The Reflection that Takes God as a Starting Point
19. The Direct Elucidation: The Presentation of the Being of Beings "in" God. Philosophy as Unconditional Knowledge of the Absolute in Contrast to Theology and Mathematics. The Various Senses of the Word "Nature"
a) Philosophy and Theology
b) Philosophy and Mathematics
c) The Concept of the Absolute in Schelling and Hegel
20. The Analogical Elucidation: Presentation of the Correspondence Between the Stations of the Being of the Absolute
21. The Circularity of the Distinction Between Ground and Existence
22. Summary of What Was Said about the Distinction in God
23. Excursus: The Unconditional Precedence of the Certainty (That Is to Say, Concurrently: the Beingness) of the Absolute
Second Chapter
The Reflection that Takes its Point of Departure from Things
24. The Ground in God as "Originary Yearning"
25. Creation as Formation through the Imagination; the Creature as "Image"
Third Chapter
The Reflection that Takes its Point of Departure from the Human
26. The Necessity of Creation and the Essence of the Human as the Proper Creature in which God Himself Reveals Himself
27. Human Will as "Divine Glimpse of Life" and "Seed of God"
CONCLUSION
OVERVIEW
28 The "Distinction" and the Essence of Freedom and of Human Freedom in Particular
29 The "Distinction" in its Full Essence
30. The "Distinction" and the Essence of the Human
31. The Essence of Evil
32. Evil and the System
33. The System and the Truth (Certainty) of Beings as a Whole
34. What Confrontation Means with Respect to Metaphysics
RECAPITULATIONS AND COURSE OF THE INTERPRETATION
Recapitulation of 14 January
Recapitulation of 21 January
Recapitulation of 28 January
Recapitulation of 4 February
Recapitulation of 11 February
Recapitulation of 18 February
Recapitulation of 25 February
Recapitulation of 4 March
Recapitulation of 11 March
APPENDIX
Preliminary Glimpses and Directives
Transitional Reflection on Hegel
The Confrontation with the Metaphysics of German Idealism and with Metaphysics in General
Supplement (Leibniz)
German-English Glossary
English-German Glossary
Greek/Latin-English Lexicon
