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One of the key traits that connect different periods of Friedrich Schlegel’s philosophy is the pri- macy of understanding over reason. It stands out against the background of the contemporaneous post-Kantian philosophical trend, where, in line with Kant’s inversion of traditional terminology, the primacy was normally given to the latter. This study investigates the book 2-4 of Schlegel’s Cologne lectures the Development of Philosophy (1804-05) and shows that, while his contemporaries (e.g. Fichte, Hegel) associated the power of understanding (Verstand) primarily with the verb “to stand” (stehen), he saw its essence in its connection to a different verb, i.g., “to understand” (verstehen), which denotes a complex process with a unique circular structure.
