man as purely sensuous drive is "nothing but a unit of quantity, and occupied moment of time-or rather, he is not at all, for his personality is suspended as long as he is ruled by sensation, and swept along by the flux of time." (man as finite being)
the sensuous drive "awakens and develops the potentialities of man, it is also this drive alone that makes their complete fulfillment impossible."
"Supressed nature soon resumes her rights, and presses for reality of existence, for some content to our knowing and some purpose of our doing."
formal drive "proceeds from the absolute existence of man, or from his rational nature, and is intent on giving him the freedom to bring harmony into the diversity of his manifestations, and to affirm his person among his changes of condition."
sensuous drive furnishes cases
formal drive gives laws
"...once you confess truth because it is truth, and practice justice because it is justice, then you have made an individual case into a law for all cases, and treated one moment of your life as if it were eternity." (objectification, ideology, the following of certitude instead of that which one is certain of - fascism)
when the formal drive and the sensuous drive act with each other in harmony, Schiller states that it is here we experience the "greatest enlargement of being: all limitations disappear nd from the mere unit of quantity to which the poverty of his senses reduced him, man has raised himself to a unity of ideas embracing the whole realm of phenomena." and here, Schiller continues "time with its whole neverending succession, is in us."
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