Friedrich Schiller On The Pathetic Translation by William F. Wertz, Jr..

The more decisive and violent the emotion now expresses itself in the field of animality, without, however, being able to assert the same power in the field of humanity, the more this latter becomes known, the more the moral independence of man manifests itself gloriously, the more pathetic is the representation and the more sublime the pathos.1 In the statues of the ancients one finds this aesthe. [...] Either negatively: if the ethical man does not receive the law from the physical and no causality over the mind is permitted to the state; or positively: if the ethical man gives the law to the physical and the mind exercises causality over the state. [...] To this propensity for unboundedness, the moral obligation of the will, through which its object is assigned to it in the strictest way, is not in the least favorable; and since the moral obligation of the will is the object of the moral judgment, so one easily sees, that to judge in this way the imaginative power could not find profit. [...] There we place the sensuously limited individual and the pathologically affeetable will opposite to the absolute law of the wijl and the infinite duty of the mind, here, on the contrary, we place the absolute capacity of the will and the infinite power of the mind opposite to the compulsion of nature and the limits of sensu-ousness. [...] There, we swing upward from the real to the possible, and from the individual to the species; here, on the contrary, we climb down from the possible to the real, lock up the species in the limits of the individual; no wonder, therefore, we enlarge ourselves with the aesthetical judgment, with the moral, on the contrary, feel narrowed and bound." From all of this results then, that the moral and th.