For 10 points, name this transitional German idealist philosopher who wrote System of Transcendental Idealism.
Study of this philosopher was revived by a Martin Heidegger lecture at the University of Freiburg in 1936. Slavoj Žižek's The Abyss of Freedom examines this philosopher's attempts to formulate three stages of the development of God, or the Absolute, as "ages of the world." Three of this philosopher's works promote his somewhat anti-scientific attempt to link nature and spirit, called Naturphilosophie, which drew heavy criticism from (*) Fichte. This author of Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom was defended in that argument with Fichte by Hegel, who was his ex-roommate. For 10 points, name this transitional German idealist philosopher who wrote System of Transcendental Idealism.
Study of this philosopher was revived by a Martin Heidegger lecture at the University of Freiburg in 1936.
Friedrich (Wilhelm Joseph) Schelling