Abstract
Schiller's reflection on the enlightening rationality and his political concerns are the foundation to his aesthetic thoughts. At a time with manifold problems in Germany, Schiller proposed to cultivate perfect humanity and build moral politics so as to resist the instrumentality-characterized modern politics. However, moral politics is built on the constraining of human nature, and only in the aesthetic utopia can human sensibility, reason and nature be reconciled with inevitability. In this sense, aestheticization is freedom.
First Page
62
Last Page
70
Recommended Citation
Li, Juan. 2014. "Schiller's Aesthetic Thoughts from Moral Politics to the Construction of Aesthetic Utopia." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 34, (1): pp.62-70. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol34/iss1/12
