作为德国古典哲学最重要的代表之一,谢林从早期开始就深入思考康德、费希特哲学所留下的体系问题和实践哲学的关联,伦理问题自然包含其中。谢林的重要性恰恰在于他并非要发展出一套习俗的道德规范或义务体系这样的伦理学,而是在"存在论"上将伦理问题与生存问题紧密相连,从而通过伦理学的思考,实现了思辨哲学的存在论突围。这一突围的遗产不仅仅在于将康德的为主观准则立法的道德真正拓展到伦理生活世界,而且在于伦理问题不能仅限于在主体内心的道德律层面,而必须上升到存在论的层面,并通过改写现代的主体性哲学才能真正得到解决。
One of the leading representatives of German classical philosophy, Scheling started early to ponder over the problems in the philosophic system established by Hegel and Fichte and their relation with practical philos- ophy, including ethics. Scheling was important not because he wanted to introduce an ethic system of moral norms and obligations in practice but because he existentially related ethic issues with survival and realized a breaking a- way from existentialism of speculative philosophy through his ethic consideration. This breaking heritage really ex- tended the moral of Kant' s subjective law-making criteria to the world of ethical life. And the problem set by Sheling' s theory cannot be solved unless our consideration on ethic issues must go beyond the subject' s inner moral discipline and move up to the existential realm by re-writing modem subjective philosophy.