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| 22022 | Beauty motivates morality, by harmonising feeling and reason |
| Full Idea: On Schiller's view, only beauty could shape or evince the necessary harmony between sensibility and reason (between inclination and duty) which provides the crucial motivation for the moral life. | |||
| From: report of Friedrich Schiller (works [1794]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 06 | |||
| A reaction: Maybe. Reason should probably be drawn towards feelings which seem inspiring. |
| 7675 | Schiller speaks obsessively of freedom throughout his works |
| Full Idea: Schiller constantly speaks of spiritual freedom: freedom of reason, the kingdom of freedom, our free self, inner freedom, freedom of mind, moral freedom, the free intelligence - a very favourite phrase - holy freedom, the impregnable citadel of freedom. | |||
| From: report of Friedrich Schiller (works [1794]) by Isaiah Berlin - The Roots of Romanticism | |||
| A reaction: Kant's philosophy and his Kingdom of Ends are an obvious source for this, but I trace the sentiment back to 'Freeborn John' Lilburne during the English Civil War. The English, thanks to Voltaire, embodied freedom in the Enlightenment. |