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1 Knowing Oneself and the Aesthetic Shaping of Character : German Romantic Anthropology Stephen Gaukroger , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016; 'Civilization and science have been tied together in the West since the eighteenth century, and both have suffered from the way in which they have come to be associated: science by its failure to meet ideals that it could never have met; civilization by the removal of the humanities and culture generally from its core, these becoming mere adjuncts or even leisure activities. In the latter case, this is mirrored in analytic philosophy – in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language for example – where aesthetics is considered marginal, an added extra, to what it means to be human. The common view, if only implicit, is that human beings would not be human beings without language or consciousness for example, but they would still be human beings if they lacked any aesthetic life. This stands in direct contrast to late eighteenth and nineteenth century thought, in which an aesthetic model of the human being is central. At the apex of this tradition stands Schiller’s Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen – “On the Aesthetic Education of Man” – of 1794.' (Introduction)
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