Schiller e a educação estética e revolucionária do homem

Abstract

Our article intends to show, in general terms, the conception of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German philosopher, poet and playwright of the late eighteenth century, about the role of art in moral and political reeducation of modern man developed in his work Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795). Schiller was not a theorist and defender of art as mere contemplation and individual enjoyment. Schiller did not see in art an activity whose purpose was enclosed within itself. For him, art should serve to a purpose that transcends it, an educational purpose that formed human intellect and feelings. Schiller did not believe in science and philosophers and in his cool, calculating and abstract reason as the true redeemers of humanity. Schiller romantically believed in the formative and educational role of art and of the artist both engaged in the construction of a man and a world reconciled with feelings, imagination, poetry and the life of impulses and creations emanating from the deepest and innermost of nature.