Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller. Friedrich Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller
Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664175366
Table of Contents
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LETTERS ON THE AESTHETICAL EDUCATION OF MAN.
THE MORAL UTILITY OF AESTHETIC MANNERS.
ON THE NECESSARY LIMITATIONS IN THE USE OF BEAUTY OF FORM.
REFLECTIONS ON THE USE OF THE VULGAR AND LOW ELEMENTS IN WORKS OF ART.
DETACHED REFLECTIONS ON DIFFERENT QUESTIONS OF AESTHETICS.
ON SIMPLE AND SENTIMENTAL POETRY.
THE STAGE AS A MORAL INSTITUTION.
OF THE CAUSE OF THE PLEASURE WE DERIVE FROM TRAGIC OBJECTS.
INTRODUCTION.
The special subject of the greater part of the letters and essays of Schiller contained in this volume is Aesthetics; and before passing to any remarks on his treatment of the subject it will be useful to offer a few observations on the nature of this topic, and on its treatment by the philosophical spirit of different ages.
First, then, aesthetics has for its object the vast realm of the beautiful, and it may be most adequately defined as the philosophy of art or of the fine arts. To some the definition may seem arbitrary, as excluding the beautiful in nature; but it will cease to appear so if it is remarked that the beauty which is the work of art is higher than natural beauty, because it is the offspring of the mind. Moreover, if, in conformity with