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Goethe, while discussing Schiller, explained to Eckermann that Schiller was unable to find “useful nature” in his environment and for that reason had to resort to history and philosophy.1 The Esthetic Letters were the culminating result of this withdrawal from his environment into intellectual disciplines. They form the climax of the development that led from Schiller’s early thinking in dramatic contrasts (in his lyrics and first historical writings) to the dialectic logic that produced the concept of the Esthetic State.

Free man himself is the source of his deeds. Aristotle

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  1. Eckermann, op. cit., p. 202.

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  2. Quoted by G. Schultz, Introduction to Vol. 27 of the National-Ausgabe, Weimar, 1958, p. 237.

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  10. Spinoza, “Ethices pars prima,” def. VII, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 37: “Ea res libera dicetur, quae ex sola suae naturae necessitate existit.” This is very much related to Schiller’s “Idea of the absolute Self, founded in itself, that is freedom.” Werke (HA) XI, 38.

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© 1965 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Regin, D. (1965). Conclusion. In: Freedom and Dignity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9097-8_11

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