German poet, dramatist and philosopher (1759-1805), a close friend and collaborator of Goethe in Weimar [IC].
Contribution
Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), a series of letters written in the wake of the French Revolution, gave the tradition on Aesthetic Education its name. It argues that a people cannot be made free by political change alone: freedom has to be formed in them first, and beauty is the means by which sense and reason are brought into balance. The wiki adds him to the lineage for that reason. His argument that freedom must be formed before it can be governed is the argument the wiki’s Bildung page makes about the BioConomy.
Selected works
- The Robbers (1781)
- On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795)
- Wallenstein (1799)
- Wilhelm Tell (1804)
Related pages
Provenance
Created 30 October 2026 with the Bildung pages, from the public record. Rowson’s essays do not discuss Schiller; the link to the BioConomy argument is the wiki’s.