| Summary: | This essay articulates an interpretation of Schelling’s philosophy that is centered on the problem of human liberty: how is it possible that an empirical I exists, from whom trascendental liberty might be pronounced? How can it be that from the absolute, in which liberty and necessity coincide, an empiric I arises in which liberty and necessity appear divided? Liberty is not an attribute of a human faculty, the will, but the being of man itself. From this point, the author demonstrates that, for Schelling, the system does not deny liberty but, paradoxically, liberty tends to give itself a systematic form and that its philosophical system is, therefore, a system of liberty.
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