Le Theme de lUnite et de lHarmonie de lHomme chez Friedrich Schiller :: French Philosophical Paper

Le Theme de lUnite et de lHarmonie de lHomme chez Friedrich SchillerABSTRACT This study demonstrates that Schillers philosophic work is not limited only to the explanation of the artistic phenomenon as such, and that, for him, art represents the premise of philosophizing, of elaborating an original conception of the world and of humanity. I emphasize the way in which the poet and playwright uses art as a philosophical method with a view to penetrating meaning in the world and in life and to identifying a solution to the crisis confronted by modernity. In this context, based on the conviction that the historical and rationalistic methods are the only ones valid for human understanding and achievement, Schiller, due to his artistic genius and his beginning from Kants ideas concerning the compatibility of the theoretical and the ethical by means of the aesthetic, advances a way of raising nature (the sensible) to the level of morality with the help of the artistic creation interprete d as a game. What radically distinguishes and confers originality on Schillers versus Kants conception is the modality of solving the problems of the relation between necessity and liberty, sensibility and intelligibility, and individuality and liberty, thus offering the image of a person able to train to resonance with the exactingness of the Great Time, when evolution may become self-evolution, and history transhistory.Friedrich Schiller nest pas seulement un sommet de la litterature allemande, il est en meme temps un philosophe dune profondeur et dune originalite impressionant. Il ne poetise pas la philosophie, mais suit les exigences dune pensee dune rare rigueur theorique et methodologique. Son oeuvre philosophique est lune des plus remarquables contributions dans la philosophie de lart. Il faut mentionner streamtant que les recherches philosophiques du grand ecrivain ne se limitent pas a lexplication du phenomene artistique comme tel lart represente pour lui une premisse de lactivite de penser philosophiquement, de lelaboration dune conception du monde et de lhomme. Schiller est le penseur qui considere lart comme linstrument indispensable pour la comprehension du sens du monde et de la vie. Cest pour cela que, en analysant sont oeuvre philosophique, nous ny decouvrons pas seulement un systeme esthetique interessant, mais nous penetrons dans un univers philosophique complexe, fonde sur des considerations dordre esthetique. On peut dire que, pour ce genial poete et dramaturge, lesthetique nest pas seulement un branche de la philosophie mais une veritable methode de celle-ci.