idealism and realism

Schiller's representation of realism and idealism is as follows:

idealism: goals "reached for through culture"
realism: goals "achieved through nature"

idealism being preferable to realism because its 'infinite greatness' is ever approximated (as opposed to being already achieved/finished) and makes human progress possible if/when human beings cultivate themselves by moving from the naive to the sentimental stage. More simply, realism is (still) finite. idealism is infinite.

(the elimination of these dualities is where divinity appears, the ideal of human nature.)