In the winter semester of 1827/1828, Schelling felt he had reached a turning point in his work: he was finally able to present the distinction he had developed over many years between negative and positive philosophy to a wider audience. With this distinction, Schelling opens no less than a new chapter in philosophy: The age of negative philosophy centred on the model of logic was drawing to a close. Now, according to Schelling, the time of positive philosophy is approaching and with it a time in which thinking will methodically do justice to the unconditional (primal) ground of history, not least to the peculiarity of all