Schelling

American  

[shel-ing] / ˈʃɛl ɪŋ /

noun

1. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775–1854, German philosopher.

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Schelling British  

/ ʃɛˈlɪŋɪən, ˈʃɛlɪŋ /

noun

1. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈjoːzɛf fɔn). 1775–1854, German philosopher. He expanded Fichte's idea that there is one reality, the infinite and absolute Ego, by regarding nature as an absolute being working towards self-consciousness. His works include Ideas towards a Philosophy of Nature (1797) and System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)

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Other Word Forms

• Schellingianism
  noun
• Schellingism
  noun
• Schellingian
  adjective

Example Sentences

Thomas Schelling, a well-connected Harvard economist and White House adviser, was on a plane bound for Boston when he started noodling with Xs and Os moving along a line.

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

Fichte’s onetime disciple and soon-to-be bitter rival, Schelling taught by the light of two candles.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

National security scholars such as Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin developed the concept of arms control in the late 1950s and early 1960s amid an accelerating U.S.-Soviet arms race.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2022

Nobody know how to do this, so McNaughton consulted his old friend, Tom Schelling.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2021

Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation’s foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called “frozen music.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson