‎"SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH.‎
‎Vorlesungen über die Methode des akademischen Studiums.‎

‎Tübingen, Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1803. 8vo. Uncut in the original wrappers. Most of spine-paper missing, but cords tight. Internally nice and clean, and with a few light pencilmarks. Old owner's name to title-page (dated 1900). IV, 326, (1) pp.‎

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‎First edition of Schelling's important treatise, in which he in 14 lectures put forward his thoughts about the academic education in the differenrt subjects at the universities. He also gives a synopsis of his own philosophy. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775 - 1854), German philosopher and educator and a major figure of German idealism in the post-Kantian development in German philosophy. Living in Tübingen he became a friend of Hegel and Hölderlin. During his professorship at Jena in 1798 he was in close contact with leading figures of Romanticism and was also co-editor with Hegel of the Critical Journal of Philosophy. ""Vorlesungen über die Methode des akademischen Studiums"" is Schelling's Encyclopedia of philosophical sciences, according to which philosophy is the presupposition for all the special sciences. In it he argues that the task of the university is to properly hold the balancing relationship between the absolute knowledge and special knowledge.Schelling's lectures from 1803 give no didactic statements, but discuss, justify and emphasize the role and importance of the methodical scientific thinking for the free and general social education. Wilhelm Von Humboldt's model concerning education, Prussian education system, which is based on the idea of freedom and the principle of unity, instituted compulsory attendance, specific training for teachers, national testing for all students, national curriculum set for each grade and mandatory kindergarten, is large built upon Schelling's ideas presented in the present work. ‎