The purpose of our research is to analyze the combination of the elements of aesthetics and the
elements that are proper to morals or politics, as this is done by Friedrich Schiller in his Letters
on aesthetics, translated in Brazil, in a more recent version as: The Aesthetic education of man
in a series of letters. In order to realize our intention, we will initially make an exhibition trying
to show how we can recognize in the philosophical tradition the concern with this type of theme,
which makes us go back to the Greeks. In this way, it is with the tragedyographers that we
recognize the association of tragedy with polis, in a horizon that links art and politics as the
founder of the moral formation of the Greek man, later promoting, in the Letters of Schiller, the
debate about the condition of our knowledge in the field of aesthetics and morals. As we can
see, when analyzing the question of compatibility or complementarity between the domains of
art and moral (political), from the perspective of the author of the Letters, proposing that the
reciprocity between the two impulses - the sensitive and the rational, is unified in the man. We
will notice that this possibility is what makes Schiller propose the primacy of aesthetic
education for a moral formation with a view to the most natural politics, or without leaps, of
humanity. According to Schiller, it is up to aesthetic culture to promote the ennoblement of
character, since the attempts of reason alone do not present such satisfactory results for modern
man. What causes the formation of the aesthetic state, through which we can find the idea of
perfect humanity - as it was once present among the Greeks. In such a way, the educated man,
aesthetically, manages to overcome the condition of his nature, by the demand of reason, but
without completely losing sight of it, since it only gives way to the moral law, as a kind of game
between these two domains. Beauty as freedom in the phenomenon is what sustains and shows
that morality is a symbol of good - according to nature - freedom. It is in this sense that the
Schiller Letters are founded on the idea that beauty seeks to promote the agreement between
reason and the sensitive, unified in man, and makes them a complete being, like their mixed
nature. Thus, Schiller establishes a moral education for man initiated by the freedom of art,
hence serving the political purpose.
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