Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays

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Author

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805

Title

Aesthetical and philosophical essays : introducing the dissertation on the "connection between the animal and spiritual man"

Original Publication

United States: Publishers Plate Renting Co., 1899.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Subject

Aesthetics

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70669

Release Date

April 29, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays INTRODUCING THE DISSERTATION ON THE “CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL MAN.”
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.VOCABULARY OF TERMINOLOGY.
5. 5.LETTERS ON THE ÆSTHETICAL EDUCATION OF MAN. — Letter I. — Letter II. — Letter III. — Letter IV. — Letter V. — Letter VI. — Letter VII. — Letter VIII. — Letter IX. — Letter X. — Letter XI. — Letter XII. — Letter XIII. — Letter XIV. — Letter XV. — Letter XVI. — Letter XVII. — Letter XVIII. — Letter XIX. — Letter XX. — Letter XXI. — Letter XXII. — Letter XXIII. — Letter XXIV. — Letter XXV. — Letter XXVI. — Letter XXVII.
6. 6.ÆSTHETICAL ESSAYS. — THE MORAL UTILITY OF ÆSTHETIC MANNERS. — ON THE SUBLIME. — THE PATHETIC. — ON GRACE AND DIGNITY. — ON DIGNITY. — ON THE NECESSARY LIMITATIONS IN THE USE OF BEAUTY OF FORM. — REFLECTIONS ON THE USE OF THE VULGAR AND LOW ELEMENTS IN WORKS OF ART. — DETACHED REFLECTIONS ON DIFFERENT QUESTIONS OF ÆSTHETICS. — ON SIMPLE AND SENTIMENTAL POETRY. — Sentimental Poetry. — Satirical Poetry. — Elegiac Poetry. — Idyl. — THE STAGE AS A MORAL INSTITUTION. — ON THE TRAGIC ART. — OF THE CAUSE OF THE PLEASURE WE DERIVE FROM TRAGIC OBJECTS.
7. 7.SCHILLER’S PHILOSOPHICAL LETTERS. — PREFATORY REMARKS. — Letter I. Julius to Raphael. — Letter II. Julius to Raphael. — Letter III. Raphael to Julius. — Letter IV. Julius to Raphael. — THEOSOPHY OF JULIUS. The World and the Thinking Being. — Idea. — Love. — Sacrifice. — God. — Letter V. Raphael to Julius. — ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ANIMAL AND THE SPIRITUAL NATURE IN MAN. — Introduction. — § 1. — PHYSICAL CONNECTION. The Animal Nature Strengthens the Action of the Spirit. — § 2.— Organism of the Operations of the Soul—of its Maintenance and Support—of Generation. — § 3.— The Body. — § 4.— Animal Life. — § 5.— Animal Sensations. — § 6.— Objections against the Connection of the Two Natures, drawn from Ideas of Morality. — PHILOSOPHICAL CONNECTION. Animal Impulses Awaken and Develop the Impulses of the Soul. — § 7.— The Method — § 8.— The Soul viewed as out of connection with the Body. — § 9.— The Soul viewed in connection with the Body. — § 10.— Out of the History of the Individual. — § 11.— From the History of Humanity. — Animal Sensations accompany Mental Sensations. — Physical Phenomena express the Emotions of the Mind.

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