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Aesthetic Education, by David Warren – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Aesthetic Education, by David Warren

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller by Ludovike Simanowiz, 1794 [Schiller National Museum in Marbach, Germany]

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, Aug. 8, 2025

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

According to Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), sensuous man must pass through aesthetic experience, which is physical, in order to reach the conditions of reason and morality.

Let us begin by noting that Schiller was not a huckster for democracy. Though he can be mysterious, at least to me, and sometimes cloyingly abstract, he nevertheless imagines that what makes a man is not that he exists as a cipher for the purpose of counting. Schiller does not, for instance, discount reason and faith. If the more numerous faction declares that something is “right,” he is unimpressed. What was wrong is still wrong.

Like the Founding Fathers of America, he is, in fact, suspicious of democracy. Right and wrong are discernible in nature. The republic that God smiles upon will be favorable to the right, and will advance righteous interests. It will not be indifferent to the making of good men. It will be naturally opposed to men who are evil. It will be at the service of men who are free. …

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