Aesthetic Education for Morality: Schiller and Kant

by Zvi Tauber


Introduction

Kant's Critique of Judgment was published in 1790. Schiller's writings from the 1790s dealing with aesthetics and ethics are intertwined, simultaneously, both with an affirmative reception of Kant's ideas and with critical attitudes against them. This applies to, among other, essays such as On Grace and Dignity (1793), Kallias (Schiller's letters to Gottfried Körner, 1793), On the Sublime (1793/4), On the Risk of Aesthetic Virtues (1795), and especially to the essay On the Aesthetic Education of Man, In a Series of Letters, dated 1795, and to the original letters in this matter sent by Schiller one to two years earlier to Herzog Friedrich-Christian von Augustenburg.