What is Schiller's theory of aesthetic education?
My theory of aesthetic education posits that true freedom and moral perfection are attainable through the cultivation of our sensibility, or our capacity for beauty. I argued that by engaging with the beautiful, particularly through art, we can harmonize our conflicting drives—the sensory and the rational. This aesthetic state allows us to experience freedom not merely as absence of constraint, but as a positive, self-governing impulse, leading to a more complete and morally autonomous individual.
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