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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Also Known As Uber die asthetische Erziehung des Menschen
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Friedrich Schiller's twenty seven Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, serialized in his own journal Die Horen across January, February and June of 1795, argue that a third drive, the play drive, reconciling humanity's sense drive and form drive, is the necessary aesthetic education for a people to become capable of political freedom without collapsing into either brute impulse or rigid abstraction. Schiller regarded it as his most important work.
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1. Friedrich Schiller, Excerpts from On the Aesthetic Education of Man, 1795 (German History in Documents and Images)
German Historical Institute Washington, German History in Documents and ImagesGerman History in Documents and Images, Friedrich Schiller, Excerpts from On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), Third Letter
Nature begins with Man no better than with the rest of her works: she acts for him where he cannot yet act as a free intelligence for himself.
- Authored By: Friedrich Schiller
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