Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE
PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE,
AND
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE,
IN A
_Course of Lectures_.

BY FREDERICK VON SCHLEGEL.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY THE REV. A. J. W. MORRISON, M.A.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
82 CLIFF STREET.
1848.

CONTENTS.

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.

LECTURE I. Page
Of the thinking Soul as the Center of Consciousness, and of the false
Procedure of Reason 7

LECTURE II.
Of the loving Soul as the Center of the moral Life; and of Marriage 28

LECTURE III.
Of the Soul’s Share in Knowledge, and of Revelation 48

LECTURE IV.
Of the Soul in relation to Nature 70

LECTURE V.
Of the Soul of Man in relation to God 95

LECTURE VI.
Of the Wisdom of the divine Order of Things in Nature, and of the
Relation of Nature to the other Life and to the Invisible World 115

LECTURE VII.
Of the divine Wisdom as manifested in the Realm of Truth, and of
the Conflict of the Age with Error 141

LECTURE VIII.
Of the divine Order in the History of the World and the Relation of
States 162

LECTURE IX.
Of the true Destination of Philosophy: and of the apparent Schism
but essential Unity between a right Faith and highest Certainty, as
the Center of Light and Life in the Consciousness 185

LECTURE X.
Of the twofold Spirit of Truth and Error in Science; of the Conflict
of Faith with Infidelity 206

LECTURE XI.
Of the Relation of Truth and Science to Life, and of Mind in its application
to Reality 232

LECTURE XII.
Of the symbolical Nature and Constitution of Life with reference to
Art and the moral Relations of Man 256

LECTURE XIII.
Of the Spirit of Truth and Life in its application to Politics, or of the
Christian Constitution of the State and the Christian Idea of Jurisprudence
277

LECTURE XIV.
Of the Division of Ranks, and of the reciprocal Relations of States,
according to the Christian Idea. Of Science as a Power; of its Constitution,
and of the right Regulation of it 301

LECTURE XV.
Of the true Idea of a Theocracy; of the Might of Science, and of the
final Restoration and Perfection of the human Consciousness 320

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE.

Preface of the German Editor 341

LECTURE I. 343

LECTURE II. 364

LECTURE III. 382

LECTURE IV. 402

LECTURE V. 424

LECTURE VI. 444

LECTURE VII. 469

LECTURE VIII. 493

LECTURE IX. 514

LECTURE X. 537