
Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics
Isaiah Berlin
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Kant's Philosophy of Reason
Kant believed that all men were capable of discovering rational answers to the question, how shall i behave? This was also something which was believed in rousseau. Schiller is as intoxicated by the idea of will, liberty, autonomy, man on his own as kant was. Let me read you the kind of remarks which chiller makes throughout his philosophical essays. He constantly speaks of spiritual freedom, reason of freedom, the kingdom of our inner self,. The only thing which is worth possessing is an unfettered will. And it is worthless that a man who simply acts from impulse, however generous, that aMan who acts under any kind of ineluctable pressure are totally worthless
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