BRUNO FONTANA NISHIYAMA BERNARDES FERREIRA

The thesis defended in this research can be summarized as follows: God is the central axis around which Schelling, in the Munich Lectures on the History of Modern Philosophy (1834), carries out his critique of Modernity and proposes the creation of a new philosophy. For him, God presented himself as the very foundation of all philosophy, understood sometimes as a universal set of possibilities, sometimes as an immemorial and extra-conceptual abyss. Schelling did not seek, with this, however, to resolve mere doctrinal problems of metaphysics or theology. What he himself said he was seeking was the God of faith, not the god of reason; the revealed God, not the thought-out god; a living and personal God, not a dead and abstract god. We intend to demonstrate, in summary, that the project of the Lessons was to make this positive idea of ​​God — which Schelling would later discuss at length in the Philosophy of Revelation (1841-42) — the criterion for judging modern philosophy, which is essentially negative, aiming not only to criticize it, but also to encompass and overcome it.