The Relationship between Ethics and Aesthetics in Schiller's Thought

Schiller as a Kantian philosopher establishes many of his thoughts on the basis of Kantian notions about aesthetics. His ideas about the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, however, seem to be different from those of Kant. In this article we are going to discuss Schiller’s thinking about the aesthetics-ethics connection and find a resolution about the core problem of his thinking, namely, the correlation between ethics and aesthetics. It seems that the nature of this issue will become clear only when we first regard his ideal goal, the ethical education, next to his other questions in the realm.