ABSTRACT
This chapter explains F. W. J. Schelling's account of the relation between freedom and system, or the philosophical construction of the ens creatum in terms of his philosophy of nature. It then traces the development of the problem of freedom as spirit, or the problem of evil as the problem of the human spirit in its opposition to nature. The chapter explains problem of individuation to postulate the metaphysical root of violence. It focuses on some of the possible consequences for Schelling's perspective that arise out of the collapse of theodicy and the resulting metaphysical ambiguity of both evil and violence. The phenomenon of evil represents for Schelling an important means of access with respect to the problem of the relation between order and life, necessity and freedom. The possibility and the reality of evil for Schelling amount to the becoming of a genuinely spiritual freedom.
