Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of the Aesthetic in Morality and Political Liberty
The French Revolution was supposed to be the political execution of a rational project, like the rejection of the church. When that becomes a bloodbath, it's not just that rationality had become too disconnected from feeling. And this is another way in which Shiller is like Nietzsche. He's a sort of advocate, a legal representative of the instinctual and wants to reject the idea that we can become moral ourselves.
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