Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics
Isaiah Berlin
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Kant's Theology of Nature and Morality
Schiller rejected the cantian solution fundamentally because it seemed to him that though kant's will liberates us from nature, it puts us into a very narrow moral path of too grim. In discussing euripides with medea, he makes this point. He says that medea is nevertheless, far loftier than jason, because medea defies nature in herself. She defines her maternal instinct. She rises above and she acts freely. What she does may be abominable, but in principle, she is somebody who is capable of reaching loftier heights as long as she is not under the impulsion of nature. The poor philistine dras lives a perfectly ordinary life
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