Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Ground and the Question of a System of Freedom The Concept of System The Principle of Ground and the Concept of System Jacobi and the Conflict between System and Freedom Two Predominant Metaphors for System Conclusion: Heidegger and the Alleged Failure of a System of Freedom 2. Identity, Ground, and the Meaning of the Copula in Judgments Pantheism and the Nature of Identity Explication of Schelling's Four Accounts of the Copula Conclusion: The Unity of Schelling's Account of the Copula? 3. The Creative Unity of the Law of Identity The Unity Expressed by the Law of Identity The Co-originality of the Laws of Identity and Ground The Transformation of the Law of Ground Divine Grounding and the Possibility of Freedom 4. Schelling's Fundamental Distinction between Ground and What Exists General Characterization of the Distinction The Distinction in Relation to the Doctrine of Potencies The Distinction within the Distinction The Grounding Character of the Ground of Existence Grounding Relations in a System of Freedom 5. Evil and the Irrational The Ground of Evil Evil as a Ground of Revelation? The Irrational and the Irreducible Remainder The Living Character of Schelling's Rationalism 6. The Ungrund as the Ultimate Origin The Context of Schelling's Treatment of the Ungrund The Ungrund as the Wesen of the Two Principles in God Characteristics of the Ungrund and Its Relation to Schelling's Previous Descriptions of the Absolute Indifference and the Grounding Character of the Ungrund The Ungrund and the Relationship between Essence and Form 7. Freedom, Necessity, and Self-Grounding The Formal vs.

the Real Concept of Freedom The Unity of Freedom and Necessity beyond Appearance The Intelligible Deed Self-Grounding and the Concept of Causa Sui Conclusion: Ground in a System of Freedom Notes Bibliography Index.