Callias letters

Schiller recorded his thoughts on beauty in the Kallias letters in correspondence with his friend Christian Gottfried Körner . A large treatise called Callias or On Beauty was planned , but due to lack of time it did not materialize.

In a letter of February 8, 1793, Schiller wrote to Körner: "Beauty is nothing other than freedom in appearance."

The letters from the environment of the "Kallias" project

• Friedrich Schiller to Christian Gottfried Körner, December 21, 1792 ( text in "Wissen im Netz"). Mention of the project “Callias, or about beauty”.
• Friedrich Schiller to Christian Gottfried Körner, January 25, 1793 ( text in "Wissen im Netz").
• Friedrich Schiller to Christian Gottfried Körner, February 8, 1793 ( text in "Wissen im Netz").
• Friedrich Schiller to Christian Gottfried Körner, February 18 and 19, 1793 ( text in “Wissen im Netz”).
• Friedrich Schiller to Christian Gottfried Körner, February 23, 1793 ( text in "Wissen im Netz").
• Friedrich Schiller to Christian Gottfried Körner, February 28 and March 1, 1793 ( text in “Wissen im Netz”).

See also

Further philosophical writings of Schiller:

• Augustenburg letters
• About the aesthetic education of man
• About grace and dignity
• About naive and sentimental poetry
• Minor prose writings
• Philosophical letters
• The walk under the linden trees

literature

• Kurt Wölfel : Friedrich Schiller . dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-31016-2 .