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“Positive philosophy is not only Schelling's final system, it is also the final complete metaphysical theology of the Western philosophical tradition. It is the final one, not because it succeeds, but because it fails: Schelling takes the only theological path left open by Kant's critique of metaphysical thinking and inadvertently proves that that path does not lead to the intended goal, that is, to a coherent and compelling first philosophy.”
― Alan White, Schelling: An Introduction to the System of Freedom

“. . . the abandonment of metaphysics involves more than the redefinition of the nature of rational inquiry in accordance with the tenets of modern scientific methodology; this redefinition itself makes matters of value and validity mere matters of opinion.”
― Alan White, Absolute Knowledge: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysics