Schiller's Concept Of Freedom And Aesthetic Ideas

Seeking freedom by combining the sense and ration is the kernel of Dutch classical aesthetics. In Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, with the purpose of freedom's realization, he combined the sense drive and form drive by using play drive. Schiller inherited the aesthetic pneuma of Kant and discussed the relationship between beauty and freedom earnestly. In other hand, he broke through the abstraction of Dutch classical aesthetics in a certain extent for he elucidated the theory of beauty and art to meet the realistic demand. Schiller firstly put forward the notion of aesthetic education in history and defined it as the humanity freely liberating and developing. We should focus on the main notion of freedom when we analyze the profound idea of aesthetic education.Freedom's connotation could be differentiated into two kinds by considering their opposites. One is limit's opposite and the other is necessity's. In philosophy and aesthetics, Freedom usually belongs to the later, as many other ideas ,it is in the historical process that Schiller's freedom thought is, The realistic politics freedom and abstract idea freedom are really the two main threads in the development of his freedom thought. The naissance of Schiller's freedom thought was influenced by Rousseau's politics theory and Kantism. Schiller developed aesthetic freedom further and he considered that we should recur to aesthetic freedom in order to make the sense transfer to thought.In the Kallias-Letters Schiller used the pattern of sensibility-impersonality to interpret beauty and deemed that beauty and freedom come from practical reason. Schiller defined beauty as the freedom in appearance. There are some other propositions about beauty found in the works explaining the definition of beauty and freedom as the ultimate aim. Since only the form could bring aesthetic freedom to human, Schiller contacted reason with object after supposing the form of transcendental reason. We should not ignore its contribution to the development of form connotation and people's...