On Grace and Dignity

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"On Grace and Dignity" (German: Über^[1] Anmut und Würde) is an influential philosophical essay published by Friedrich Schiller in the journal Neue Thalia in mid June 1793. It is his first major support for the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, critically assessing the treatments of ethics and aesthetics in Kant's Critique of Judgment.

In it, in view of human beings' dual nature as rational and emotional beings, Schiller explained human beauty in terms of Grace (Anmut) and Dignity (Würde). His emphatic answer to this was a Kantian dualism reconciling the physical and cognitive nature in people in a synthesis seen in 'beautiful souls' (Schöne Seelen) in which duty and nature harmonised. It thus paved the way for Schiller's philosophical and aesthetic masterwork On the Aesthetic Education of Man.

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↑ Originally spelled Ueber.

v t e Friedrich Schiller
Plays	The Robbers Fiesco Intrigue and Love Körner's Morning Don Carlos Wallenstein Wallenstein's Camp The Piccolomini Wallenstein's Death Mary Stuart The Maid of Orleans The Bride of Messina William Tell Die Huldigung der Künste Demetrius
Libretti	Semele
Selected poems	Ode to Joy Resignation Die Götter Griechenlandes Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais Die Teilung der Erde Xenien Der Handschuh Der Taucher Die Kraniche des Ibykus Ritter Toggenburg Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer Der Ring des Polykrates Der Kampf mit dem Drachen Die Bürgschaft Das Lied von der Glocke Nänie Der Antritt des neuen Jahrhunderts Das Siegesfest
Selected prose works	The Criminal of Lost Honour The Ghost-Seer A magnanimous act
Selected philosophical works	The Theatre Considered as a Moral Institution Über den Grund des Vergnügens an tragischen Gegenständen Augustenburger Briefe On Grace and Dignity Über das Pathetische Kallias-Briefe On the Aesthetic Education of Man On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry Über das Erhabene
Historical works	What is universal history and why does one study it?
Journals	Wirtembergisches Repertorium Thalia Die Horen
Memorials	Berlin Chicago Columbus Milwaukee (with Goethe) Syracuse (with Goethe) Weimar (with Goethe)
Related	Johann Kaspar Schiller (father) Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller (mother) Charlotte von Lengefeld (wife) Carl Christoph von Lengefeld (father-in-law) Louise von Lengefeld (mother-in-law) Karl von Schiller (son) Ernst von Schiller (son) Emilie von Gleichen-Rußwurm (daughter) Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm (grandson) Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm (great-grandson) Christophine Reinwald (sister) Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann Reinwald (son-in-law) Balladenjahr Weimar Classicism Play drive Skull Friedrich Schiller (1923 film) Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (1940 film) Beloved Sisters (2014 film) Schiller (2004 biography)

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