Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life..

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards;….

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs..

Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" tha….

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-vari….

No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for u….

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel..

The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy f….

Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they ….

Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite, of the universe as….

The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others a….

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work….

When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close t….

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one..

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state..

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us..

The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from….

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing mo….

Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He rightly notes the aesthet….

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason..

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to….