F. W. J. Schelling 
First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature [PDF ebook] 

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Translator’s Introduction

The Primacy of the Postulate
From Postulate to Deduction
Transcendental Deductions and The Idea of Nature
Logogenesis, Construction, and Potency in the Philosophy of Nature
Conclusion
Works Cited

Translator’s Note

Title Page of Schelling 1799 Edition

Foreword to Schelling 1799 Edition

Outline of the Whole

First Division

I. The Unconditioned in Nature
II. The Original Qualities and Actants in Nature
III. Actants and Their Combinations
IV. Inhibition and Stages of Development
V. Deduction of the Dynamic Series of Stages

Second Division

First System
Second System
Third Possible System
Conclusions

Third Division

I. On the Concept of Excitability
II. Deduction of Organic Functions from the Concept of Excitability
III. The Graduated Series of Stages in Nature
Appendix to Chapter III
IV. General Theory of the Chemical Process
V. The Theater of the Dynamic Organization of the Universe

Introduction to the Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, or, On the Concept of Speculative Physics and the Internal Organization of a System of this Science (1799)

§1. What we call Philosophy of Nature is a Necessary Science in the System of Knowledge
§2. Scientific Character of the Philosophy of Nature
§3. Philosophy of Nature is Speculative Physics
§4. On the Possibility of Speculative Physics
§5. On a System of Speculative Physics in General
§6. Internal Organization of the System of Speculative Physics

Appendix: Scientific Authors

Notes

English-German Glossary

German-English Glossary

Page Concordance

Index