Given Schiller’s response to the bloodbaths of the French Revolution was to double down on the importance of aesthetics and aesthetic education, I think he would emphasize the need to address the subjective issues within the inner man. He would probably suggest that it was foolish to get lost in a perpetual cycle of action-reaction, always responding to the latest crisis with blind fits of emotion that offer no real longterm vision—a beautiful one—premised on a proper understanding of human nature.
If one wants to see real change, they have to be capable of offering a genuine vision, otherwise things will always devolve into tribal warfare.
Schiller’s letters offer a true vision of what education in a mature republic looks like.
I wonder what Schiller would make of today's United States?
Given Schiller’s response to the bloodbaths of the French Revolution was to double down on the importance of aesthetics and aesthetic education, I think he would emphasize the need to address the subjective issues within the inner man. He would probably suggest that it was foolish to get lost in a perpetual cycle of action-reaction, always responding to the latest crisis with blind fits of emotion that offer no real longterm vision—a beautiful one—premised on a proper understanding of human nature.
If one wants to see real change, they have to be capable of offering a genuine vision, otherwise things will always devolve into tribal warfare.
Schiller’s letters offer a true vision of what education in a mature republic looks like.
Perhaps ideas whose time has come?
Stranger things have happened.