The paper aims to reconstruct Schiller’s presence in Natorp’s philosophy, focusing on the role of Schiller’s aesthetics in the first period of Natorp’s writings (1880-1914). Its purpose is to show that, in the development of Natorp’s thought, particularly from a theoretical standpoint, Schiller was as important to him as Kant. The paper then examines how aesthetics plays a crucial role within Natorp’s theoretical perspective, especially in relation to his effort to identify the “ultimate unity” on the objective side of knowledge. Finally, it seeks to indicate, through a brief outline, how this is central to understanding Natorp’s conception of the individual as a concrete moment of objectivity and its relation to with his critical psychology.
Mattia Papa (Thu,) studied this question.