Choosing, Balancing, Transcending: the Approach of the Balanced Aesthetics of Schiller

Schiller was a concerned intellectual of the 19th century. His works are full of the memory of the integrity of human nature and the past that can never come back. But he does not indulge in such a nostalgic mood, and at the same time he clearly realizes the truth is that reality can never turn back. As a result, he uses the strong sense of opposition to illustrate the two sharp sides of the contradiction. However, interpreting the problem is not the ultimate goal of Schiller, he is in search of “get back to the original state in the double chaos through aesthetics”, to achieve the balanced aesthetics. The ideal state of aesthetic is not waving, hesitating, and certainly not to make a choice, but to recognize and further combine the opposite state of the two sides, in order to show the balance of the sensibility and form. And when the two sides come to their extreme state-to become one, that is the best state of the balanced aesthetics, the aesthetics beyond the balance, and to reach the goal of the redemption of the aesthetics.