| Friedrich Schiller | |
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| Born | Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller 10 November 1759 Marbach am Neckar, Württemberg,Germany |
| Died | 9 May 1805 (aged 45) Weimar, Saxe-Weimar, Germany |
| Occupation | poet, dramatist, writer, historian,philosopher |
| Nationality | German |
| Literary movement | Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism |
| Notable work(s) | The Robbers Don Carlos The Wallenstein Trilogy Mary Stuart William Tell |
| Spouse(s) | Charlotte von Lengefeld (1790–1805) |
| Children | Karl Ludwig Friedrich (1793–1857) Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm (1796–1841) Karoline Luise Friederike (1799–1850) Emilie Henriette Luise (1804–1872) |
ON
THE AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF MAN [1ST LETTER-5TH LETTER]
Friedrich Schiller wrote Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man in 1793 for his friend the Danish Prince Friedrich Christian who had provided him with a stipend to help him through an illness. In 1795 the letters were published and the provide a worthwhile consideration of the nature of Aesthetics for us still today. The collection of twenty seven letters is not an easy read but it is worth persevereing to gain the insights of this great poet and playwright, friend of Goethe and inspiration for Beethoven and many artists, particularly in the Romantic era.
In my understanding the first letter in the book On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller tells the story of Beauty and Art is part of the Aesthetic. Aesthetics is a philosophy of art is an exploration leading to a humanitarian philosophy. However the letters do consider the nature of Beauty and its relationship to art and man. For Friedrich Schiller beauty seems to arise as a synthesis between opposing principles "whose highest ideal is to be sought in the most perfect possible union and equilibrium of reality and form".
In a second letter,Friedrich Schiller told about of art is distinguished from utility and science. Utility is the great idol of the time, to which all powers do homage and all subjects are subservient. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time. The very spirit of philosophical inquiry itself robs the imagination of one promise after another, and the frontiers of art are narrowed, in proportion as the limits of science are enlarged. Friedrich Schiller also said that the philosopher is no longer present study the art world, but they like to to know and inquire into the political game. he considered that people are meant to be manipulated by certain behalf of itself, and people have the default to study and investigate on their own stupidity. and people at present have gone their right to voice their opinions to themselves, they resisted if there is some express their own opinions. Friedrich Schiller hopes that he would assure to all that art is less foreign to the needs of taste to express, but, arriving at the solution even in the political, aestheticway must continue, because it is beauty in freedom.
The third letter,Friedrich Schiller also discusses the nature of the ideal man and how the impulse for play interacts with man's nature, especially his rational and sensuous aspects which form a juxtaposition within him. This juxtaposition is discussed at length with a synthesis described in terms that suggest a transcendance that culminates in our very humanity. Man and his nature is important to Schiller as his reason, but "The first appearance of reason in Man is not yet the beginning of his humanity. The latter is not decided until he is free." The realm of nature, within which man lives, does not contain all of man: the work of reason allows man to transcends the bounds of nature by elevating physical necessity into moral necessity, from the state of nature to the moral state–without, however, jeopardizing the realm of nature that nourishes man. According to Friedrich Schiller, freedom is attained when the sensual and rational in man are fully integrated but his aesthetic disposition is seen as coming from Nature.
In letters to the four,Friedrich Schiller told about the state of nature works by compulsion, while the moral state works through freedom and rational choice. As previously suggested, has preponderance that a revolution in a state according to moral principles can be free from injurious consequences; nor can anything else secure its endurance. In proposing or setting up a moral state, the moral law is relied upon as a real power, and free will is drawn into the realm of causes, where all hangs together mutually with stringent necessity and rigidity. But we know that the condition of the human will always remains contingent, and that only in the Absolute Being physical coexists with moral necessity.
In a letter to five,Friedrich Schiller told about the present state is characterized by lower classes governed “animal satisfactions,” while the higher classes exhibit and even more disgusting ”lethargy” in the form of unfettered egotism. Egotism has founded its system in the very bosom of a refined society, and without developing even a sociable character, we feel all the contagions and miseries of society.
In conclusion, art is therefore necessary to develop this feeling. “Even before Truth’s triumphant light can penetrate the recesses of the human heart, the poet’s imagination will intercept its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be radiant while the dews of night still linger in the valley”. People object that beauty’s relationship to pure form, rather than content, could lead soem to reject reality all together. But Schiller says that perhaps Experience as such is not the best place to go looking for positions of judgment.
In my understanding the first letter in the book On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller tells the story of Beauty and Art is part of the Aesthetic. Aesthetics is a philosophy of art is an exploration leading to a humanitarian philosophy. However the letters do consider the nature of Beauty and its relationship to art and man. For Friedrich Schiller beauty seems to arise as a synthesis between opposing principles "whose highest ideal is to be sought in the most perfect possible union and equilibrium of reality and form".
In a second letter,Friedrich Schiller told about of art is distinguished from utility and science. Utility is the great idol of the time, to which all powers do homage and all subjects are subservient. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time. The very spirit of philosophical inquiry itself robs the imagination of one promise after another, and the frontiers of art are narrowed, in proportion as the limits of science are enlarged. Friedrich Schiller also said that the philosopher is no longer present study the art world, but they like to to know and inquire into the political game. he considered that people are meant to be manipulated by certain behalf of itself, and people have the default to study and investigate on their own stupidity. and people at present have gone their right to voice their opinions to themselves, they resisted if there is some express their own opinions. Friedrich Schiller hopes that he would assure to all that art is less foreign to the needs of taste to express, but, arriving at the solution even in the political, aestheticway must continue, because it is beauty in freedom.
The third letter,Friedrich Schiller also discusses the nature of the ideal man and how the impulse for play interacts with man's nature, especially his rational and sensuous aspects which form a juxtaposition within him. This juxtaposition is discussed at length with a synthesis described in terms that suggest a transcendance that culminates in our very humanity. Man and his nature is important to Schiller as his reason, but "The first appearance of reason in Man is not yet the beginning of his humanity. The latter is not decided until he is free." The realm of nature, within which man lives, does not contain all of man: the work of reason allows man to transcends the bounds of nature by elevating physical necessity into moral necessity, from the state of nature to the moral state–without, however, jeopardizing the realm of nature that nourishes man. According to Friedrich Schiller, freedom is attained when the sensual and rational in man are fully integrated but his aesthetic disposition is seen as coming from Nature.
In letters to the four,Friedrich Schiller told about the state of nature works by compulsion, while the moral state works through freedom and rational choice. As previously suggested, has preponderance that a revolution in a state according to moral principles can be free from injurious consequences; nor can anything else secure its endurance. In proposing or setting up a moral state, the moral law is relied upon as a real power, and free will is drawn into the realm of causes, where all hangs together mutually with stringent necessity and rigidity. But we know that the condition of the human will always remains contingent, and that only in the Absolute Being physical coexists with moral necessity.
In a letter to five,Friedrich Schiller told about the present state is characterized by lower classes governed “animal satisfactions,” while the higher classes exhibit and even more disgusting ”lethargy” in the form of unfettered egotism. Egotism has founded its system in the very bosom of a refined society, and without developing even a sociable character, we feel all the contagions and miseries of society.
In conclusion, art is therefore necessary to develop this feeling. “Even before Truth’s triumphant light can penetrate the recesses of the human heart, the poet’s imagination will intercept its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be radiant while the dews of night still linger in the valley”. People object that beauty’s relationship to pure form, rather than content, could lead soem to reject reality all together. But Schiller says that perhaps Experience as such is not the best place to go looking for positions of judgment.
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