L’idea dell’esistente e il mondo al di fuori dell'idea. Sull'Esposizione del processo della natura di Schelling del 1843/44

This text can be traced back to the manuscript of a Berlin lecture, originally entitled On the Principles of Philosophy, which was held during the winter semester of 1843-­44. It is the only example of a systematically coherent exposition on the philosophy of nature in Schelling’s later creative period. In this manuscript, in which the philosophy of nature is presented as the first scientific part of the broader program of the "negative" or "purely rational philosophy", Schelling develops an a priori ontology of the real in critical comparison with Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. The article examines some of the main features of Schelling’s later account of the philosophy of nature found in the Presentation of the Natural Process, focusing particularly on the topic, addressed in the first part of the manuscript, of the transition from the "idea of the existent" or "being", which must be presupposed to all sciences, to the "world" which exists "outside the idea".