tragedy is an untied not

Tragedy eleveates our sensuous (internal) emotions outward and above into the realm of morality (external)

This sublime spiritual disposition is the lot of strong and philosophical minds who, through assiduous work on themselves, have learned to control the selfish instict [sensuous, internal]. Even the most painful loss does not drive them beyond the sort of composed melancholy that is always capable of being combined with a noticeable degree of pleasure. Only such minds, who alone are capable of separating themselves from tehmselves, enjoy the privilege of taking part in themselves and feeling their own suffering in the gentle reflection of sympathy [morality, external].

what separates the moral from the sensuous is choice. For Schiller, choice is what elevates our sensuous (material) instinct into the moral realm (self control, discipline).

The pleasure that sorrowful, tragic emotions give us originates in the satisfaction of the urge to act. but in this regard, too, it is not the number, nor the liveliness of the images, nor even the effectiveness of desires in general, but rather a specific type of image and effectiveness of desires in general, but rather a specific type of image and the effectiveness of a specific desire, produced by reason, that lie at the basis of this pleasure.

empathy corresponds directly with the urge to act. Schiller comapres tragedy with the "untied not" which is a beautiful picture of aesthetic pleasure within a certain lack of something to be desired. Open-endedness is an important function of tragic art. We must leave the viewer with something to desire, something to act upon, something to change- guiding him or her into the realm of morality.