Schiller’s Romantic Rational Reconstruction of History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Schiller’s Romantic Rational Reconstruction of History

Sunday 10 November 2024 is the 265th anniversary of the birth of Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (10 November 1759 – 09 May 1805), who was born in Marbach am Neckar, in the Duchy of Württemberg, on this date in 1759.

We could call Schiller a “renaissance man” because of his many accomplishments—poet, playwright, historian, and philosopher—but really we should call him an “Enlightenment man” or “romantic man,” because he was a man of his age, but he’s also a “universal man” in the sense sometimes attributed to the renaissance man, and as a universal man he gave a famous lecture on universal history.

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