Schiller e a arte : a beleza como elevação do homem rumo ao absoluto

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze, through Schiller’s perspective, the question of man in relationship with the absolute, considering the action of beauty: an instrument of human elevation. The aesthetic, moral and religious spheres are intimately connected in the masterpiece On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters which, inspiring this research, points to a transformation horizon through aesthetic which promotes civilization. According to the author the way man passes through until he meets his final goal, even if unachievable, is a tendency that is carried inside himself, as a capacity of self transformation. Beauty emerges as the key to harmony and mediation. The way passed through from the physical man to the aesthetic one and, soon, to the moral one can lead him to meet the world moral author.