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Schiller was born in 1759 in one of those tame bourgeois families that have so often cradled untamed genius. Growing up in a devout Pietist milieu, it was not unnatural that Schiller should plan to prepare himself for the ministry. However the Duke of Württemberg needed young intelligence for his growing school and forced Schiller’s father, an officer in Karl Eugen’s service, to enroll the boy in this institute. Thus at fourteen, young Johann Christoph Friedrich entered the Pflanzschule at the palace Solitude.
La liberté naturelle, qui n’a pour bornes que les forces de l’individu. Rousseau
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Ibid.. p. 29. It should be kept in mind that Schiller knew Rousseau’s work only partly and this evaluation does not do justice to Rousseau’s work as an entirety. See further Chap. 2. p. 25.
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Witte, p. 36. Allan L. Carter, in Parallel Themes and their Treatment in Schiller and Shaftesbury, Philadelphia, 1919, believes that little evidence can be traced of Schiller’s first-hand knowledge of Shaftesbury, and that the parallels in thinking must be based on similarities in character and temperament. (p. 12)
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Regin, D. (1965). Rebels and Scholars. In: Freedom and Dignity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9097-8_2
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