Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

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Friedrich von Schiller. Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

INTRODUCTION

Part of the nineteenth century seems to take in hand the task of

VOCABULARY OF TERMINOLOGY

LETTER I

LETTER II

LETTER III

LETTER IV

LETTER V

LETTER VI

LETTER VII

LETTER VIII

LETTER IX

LETTER X

LETTER XI

LETTER XII

LETTER XIII

LETTER XIV

LETTER XV

LETTER XVI

LETTER XVII

LETTER XVIII

LETTER XIX

LETTER XX

LETTER XXI

LETTER XXII

LETTER XXIII

LETTER XXIV

LETTER XXV

LETTER XXVI

LETTER XXVII

THE MORAL UTILITY OF AESTHETIC MANNERS

ON THE SUBLIME

THE PATHETIC

ON GRACE AND DIGNITY

ON DIGNITY

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

SENTIMENTAL POETRY

SATIRICAL POETRY

ELEGIAC POETRY

IDYL

THE STAGE AS A MORAL INSTITUTION

ON THE TRAGIC ART

OF THE CAUSE OF THE PLEASURE WE DERIVE FROM TRAGIC OBJECTS

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reconstructing the moral edifice and of giving back to thought a larger form. The literary result of its effects is the renaissance of lyrical poetry with an admirable development in history.

Schiller's most brilliant works were in the former walk, his histories have inferior merit, and his philosophical writings bespeak a deep thinking nature with great originality of conception, such as naturally results from a combination of high poetic inspiration with much intellectual power.

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Matter and Form. "These two conceptions are at the foundation of all other reflection, being inseparably connected with every mode of exercising the understanding. By the former is implied that which can be determined in general; the second implies its determination, both in a transcendental sense, abstraction being made of any difference in that which is given, and of the mode in which it is determined. That which in the phenomenon corresponds to the sensation, I term its matter; but that which effects that the content of the phenomenon can be arranged under certain relations, I call its form." – Kant, "Critique," op. cit.

Objective. What is inherent or relative to an object, or not Myself, except in the case when I reflect on myself, in which case my states of mind are objective to my thoughts. In a popular sense objective means external, as contrasted with the subjective or internal.

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