The Perfect Sentence for Schiller

Elham Shabani

• Publisher: GRIN Verlag
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783346133816
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - General, , language: English, abstract: Schiller discussed, in his "Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man", how the form drive in human beings should control the life drive in order for a man of time to be cultivated and reach his fullest potentials. Schiller believed that the harmony of the play drive, which mediates between the other two drives, is necessary for the aesthetic life of human beings. This aesthetic state is the source of human freedom. To reach such beautiful harmony, man needs to be educated. The sensibility of man can be educated through the abundance of sources. By being in connection with the sources of beauty, one is more sensitized towards the aesthetic values and there comes the free will, in that the human being follows the rules by will. To the best knowledge of the author, Schiller does not answer the question of what the abundance of the sources are and where we can find one. Elsewhere in Schiller, it is mentioned that by imitating Jesus Christ as a source of unification of the man of time and the man of ideal, one can find the beautiful soul. This imitation must also be internally embellished within the human, so the person must be trained and the sensations must be naturally educated. The author believes that in Schiller, the sources that function as beauty are the ones that lead to an abundance of experiences. In that case, just like the selected and rare groups that observe the rules of beauty simultaneously and by will, these sources have a balance of form and life drives within them and can elevate the soul of the ones who encounter them and receive and conceive them.