Deducing Beauty: The Grounds of Beauty in Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man

In this video, I examine Schiller's transcendental deduction of the beautiful set forth in his Letter's On the Aesthetic Education of Man. Whereas in my previous video, I articulated Schiller's account of the social and political effects of beauty, here I attempt to explain Schiller's view of Beauty itself. Following Kant, he attempts to offer a transcendental deduction of the beautiful, arguing that if human perfectibility is possible, then beauty must exist as a necessary condition of that possibility. In the process, I distinguish between contemporary and Kantian meanings of the term "transcendental", and explain Schiller's accounts of the form drive, the sensual drive, and the play drive. I also consider some differences between Schiller's account of beauty and human perfections and more traditional Platonic accounts.
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Timestamps
Intro: 0:00-0:46
Transcendental Arguments: 0:47-3:10
The Phenomenon of Humanity: 3:11-7:01
The Paradox of Perfectibility: 7:02-12:04
Sensuous and Form Drives: 12:05-19:08
The Play Drive: 19:09-30:48
Transcendental Deduction of the Beautiful: 30:49-38:06
Concluding Reflections: 38:07-42:44

[@Jessica_Irene_]

♥️👌🏻 thank you.

[@chrisdiver6224]

The sensuous drive and the form drive are fully realized by us in each act of discovery wherein heretofore different things become expressions of a unifying theme. In the moment of discovery, time becomes eternal and eternity time - this paradox, this logical impossibility, is God's manner of awareness.

[@fethk]

Thank you! Splendid as usual!

[@metafisicacibernetica]

I'm here, nobel friend.