
Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics
Isaiah Berlin
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Liberation by Art, Schiller's Third Condition
Schiller says that the only way in which human beings can liberate themselves is by adopting the attitude of players, people, games players. If we are children play, to take the very simplest instance, we can imagine ourselves to be red indians and obey their rules without a sense of pressure. And therefore, if only we can transform ourselves into creatures who obey laws, not because these laws are made for us by others, then we are saved.
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