Abstract
Weimar Classicism was not only a literary movement, but also a movement of education, because education as an issue of modernity received an in-depth discussion by key figures of Weimar Classicism such as Goethe, Schiller, and Wilhelm Humboldt. Being concerned about the condition of fragmentation in modernity, Goethe, Schiller, and Humboldt referred to the development of harmonious personality of the ancient Greeks with the hope of attaining the perfection of human beings. While Goethe and Humboldt aimed to achieve the goal of a harmonious person through aesthetic education, Schiller, besides the goal of individual improvement, had a more ambitious political plan, which was to create an aesthetic kingdom through the aesthetic person in the state of play. These differences in their educational goals also manifested the ideological tension between the core members of Weimar Classicism.
Keywords
education, modernity, harmonious person, aesthetic person, Goethe, Schiller, Wilhelm Humboldt
First Page
212
Last Page
223
Recommended Citation
Yang, Mingqiang, and Yingfu Lu. 2025. "From the Harmonious Person to Aesthetic Utopia: A Study of Educational Ideas of Goethe, Schiller and Humboldt from the Perspective of Modernity." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 45, (3): pp.212-223. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol45/iss3/21
