naive and sentimental poetry

Two demands of a work of art:

first, the "necessary relationship to its object (objective truth)"
second, the "necessary relationship of this object...to the human abilities of feeling (subjective generality)."

depict the ideal, but do not imitate it. (through sentimental operation)

"The naive art of the ancients 'depicts the obejct with all its limitations, individualizing it,' while the sentimental art of the moderns consists in removing 'all limitations from its object, idealizing it.'"

thesis: "nature brings [man] to unity with himself, art separates and divides him, and through the idea he returns to unity." ...For Schiller, the poet's task is to transform a limited objective into an infinite one by means of a sentimental operation. (subjective and objective consciousness)

progress: Naive -> Sentimental -> Ideal.
only a synthesis of naive and sentimental poetry can "give human nature its complte expression" and thereby realize the whole range of human potential, that state of being "a peer of God" sought in Schiller's first dissertation.