Wer denkt konkret?

Abstract This article discusses the debate between Schelling and Hegel from 1811 to 1820. It considers Schelling’s Ages of the World on which he worked during this period as a counter-concept to the speculative logic presented by Hegel in his Science of Logic , first published in 1812. In contrast to Hegel, Schelling attempts in the first book of The Ages of the World to develop a logic that is both onto-logic and theo-logic and also follows the primacy of the will. According to this view, all conceptual relationships arise from volitional relationships of God or the Absolute. Apart from this difference, Schelling adheres to Hegel’s stage sequence of logic, moving from considerations of being and non-being, to becoming, and finally to something. This article illustrates and traces these stages on the basis of previously unpublished fragments of Schelling’s Ages of the World .