Schelling's Logic of Pronominal Being vis-à-vis Idealism of Absolute Reflection

The following topics guide our reasoning in this article on Schelling, Being, and Predication. The first, in which continuity between the System of Identity and Schelling's new essay on the System of Freedom can be seen, concerns the critique of Fichte's idealistic concept of being and consequently the affirmation of the thesis of the primacy of nature in view of achieving a realist position of unity. Against a position that, like Fichte's, falls into an inadvertent difference between consciousness and its real content, Schelling asserts the identity of ideal and real ground based on Hölderlin's thesis of the trans-reflexive character of Being. The second theme, regarding the theory of the bond, completely changes the conceptual horizon of Schelling's metaphysics and calls into question the claim of a system of reason in general. The impossibility of any being to be itself, and consequently the final impossibility of establishing an identity as such affects in turn the world view of the system of philosophy as the identity of principle and development and impends the identity of reason as a substantial principle as conceived by other systematic thinkers of modernity.