Die Lebensalteranalogie bei Herder und Schelling

This paper considers Herder's and Schelling's use of analogical thought and, in particular, the idea that the different stages of the history of humankind correspond to the different stages of the life of a single individual (Lebensalteranalogie). This idea is based on a connection and a correspondence between the world of nature and the world of spirit, of culture.