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Full Idea
On Schiller's view, only beauty could shape or evince the necessary harmony between sensibility and reason (between inclination and duty) which provides the crucial motivation for the moral life.
Gist of Idea
Beauty motivates morality, by harmonising feeling and reason
Source
report of Friedrich Schiller (works [1794]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 06
Book Ref
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.134
A Reaction
Maybe. Reason should probably be drawn towards feelings which seem inspiring.
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