Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), along with J.G.

Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel, was one of the three most influential

thinkers in the tradition of German Idealism. Among his philosophical

works are First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

(1799), System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), Philosophical

Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom (1809), The Ages of the

World (1813), and Philosophy of Mythology (1857).