MARIANA ALKIMIN RINCON

With Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism, Schelling presents, as the title itself indicates, an inevitable conflict within philosophy. Two systems are possible, even though they are opposites. The objective of this work is to identify how this conflict is presented, what its consequences and relevance are within the work. Therefore, in the first chapter, Schelling's criticism of the reading of the Critique of Practical Reason carried out by the theologians of Tuebingen is analyzed, who would defend the thesis of a moral God, a criticism that inaugurates the Letters. In the second chapter, we examine the role of the Critique of Pure Reason given by the author as a canon of philosophy, with special attention to the general form and systematic character that this discipline must assume, to the indeterminacy of a material form of scientific knowledge, and the conditions that enable us to affirm the truth of not just one system, but two, despite them being opposites. The third chapter deals with the concept of intellectual intuition presented in the eighth Letter, its relationship with the intuitive knowledge of Spinoza's Ethics, its function in the positive foundation of philosophy and the inevitability of illusion in the experience in which it participates. Lastly, in the fourth chapter, the speculative reading of Sophocles' tragic poem Oedipus the King made in the tenth Letter is exposed, its articulation with the conflict between dogmatism and criticism and its relevance within the history of philosophy about philosophical thought about the tragedy.