Philosophy of Art

not a symbol of the same — in another passage it says: also of genius, as if it produced entirely unconsciously, and could provide no reason for its products, why it should have turned out just so. Genius works with consciousness, only the unconscious part of its nature accompanies it in its work — the artist in the true sense only objectifies the ideas; what the philosopher possesses idealiter ideally, the artist realizes in objects outside himself. Fichte, therefore, expressed the idea of a work of art quite correctly in his morality, in that the work of art draws down to the common standpoint what the philosopher possesses transcendentally — naturally, in that the artist objectifies the transcendental. After Kant, Schiller distinguished himself especially through his letters on aesthetic education — through the sentimental and naive, but [also] the contrast which Friedrich Schlegel expanded through the opposition of ancient and modern poetry. Friedrich Schlegel set forth in his work "The Greeks and Romans," regarding that, History of the Poetry of the Greeks and Romans, and both Schlegels in their characterization-