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Apr 21, 2017 · In Letters 26 and 27, Schiller imagines the circumstances that must have been necessary for early humans to develop an aesthetic sense.
Examining Schiller’s Kantianism and the concepts of religious humanism, autonomy, providence, immanence and transcendence, we arrive at the general conclusion that he was among the first humanists in the German tradition to remove the religious dimension of ethics.
Human diligence has cultivated it and subdued the resisting land through persistence and skill. In one part of the world we see, that mankind redeemed the land from the sea, somewhere else he opened rivers into the arid land.
Apr 1, 2014 · One could hardly exaggerate the influence of Schiller’s claim that early Greek depictions of the natural world contain “no more special involvement of the heart than the depiction of a dress, a shield, a weapon, a household tool, or some sort of mechanical object.” 3 One can hear it in Matthew Arnold’s formulation of classical poetics ...
Thus, Schiller identifies the paradoxical nature of human existence. Man cannot return to a lost Paradise, where, like the animals, he merely obeys instinct; but rather, man must struggle to create a paradise, based upon the image of God within him, his capacity for creative reason and love.
Oct 20, 2005 · 2. EARLY DOUBTS. One of the most common objections against Schiller's aesthetics is that it suffers from a naive idealism about the value and effect of the arts. It is as if Schiller believes that mankind could improve itself simply by listening to music, reading novels, and going to plays.
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The human being is like a big summary, like a world like an encyclopaedia repeats everything once again in itself that is otherwise scattered. A microcosm, a little world in a macrocosm, a big world! Like hieroglyphics, Schiller says, is that which is contained in the different realms of nature.
