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Abstract

Embarking on the paradox of the imagination, Schelling elaborates on its creative and intuitive nature. He regards the intellectual intuition of the Absolute as the transcendental foundation of imagination, thus elevating the latter from the level of epistemology to that of ontology, and making it a kind of creativity rooted in the divine Creation that establishes the fundamental relationship between human and the being of the world. The poetic imagination is the objectification of the divine imagination in the empirical world. It communicates the finite and the infinite through the aesthetic action of “Ein-bildung,” and achieves the realization of the Absolute's self-production and self-intuition. The integration of imagination and the metaphysical construction principle of the whole philosophical system is essentially a poetic creation. The inherent structure of imagination contains a contradiction between freedom and necessity. Schelling believes that the real imagination should be free creation constrained by systematic inner necessity. He reveals the real human imagination as the combination of divinity and poetry based on human freedom. The three-dimensional theoretical structure of imagination—divinity, poetry and freedom—runs through the three human spiritual fields, reason, sensibility and will, which correspond to the triple meta-value of truth, beauty and goodness, prompting people to achieve an overall harmonious state of life.

Keywords

Schelling; imagination; intellectual intuition; poetry; freedom

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