{"title":"The First Train","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv209xnb3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv209xnb3.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":427122,"journal":{"name":"From the Jewish Provinces","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122913621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friedrich Schiller","authors":"F. Schiller","doi":"10.14361/9783839413388-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839413388-001","url":null,"abstract":"tion our nature feels its limits, but our cognitive nature its superiority, its freedom from limits; in the face of which we are therefore physically reduced, but over which we morally elevate ourselves, that is, through ideas. Only as sensuous beings are we dependent; as cognitive beings we are free. The sublime object first allows us to feel our dependency as natural beings, while it secondly makes us conscious of our independence, which we as cognitive beings maintain over nature, not only in us, but also outside us. We are dependent, insofar as something outside us contains the grounds for something in us becoming possible. As long as the nature outside of us is in conformity with the conditions under which something becomes possible in us, to that extent we cannot feel our dependency. Should we become conscious of our dependency, then nature must be conceived as at variance with that, which is a need for us and yet is only possible through nature’s cooperation, or, which is to say just as much, nature must find itself in opposition to our drives. Now, let all the drives which are effective in us as sensuous beings, be led back to two fundamental drives. First, we possess a drive, to alter our condition, to express our existence, to be effective, which all amounts to obtaining conceptions for ourselves; thus, it can be called the conceptual drive, the cognitive drive. Secondly, we possess a drive, to preserve our condition, to continue our existence, which is called the drive of self-preservation. The conceptual drive relates to cognition, the selfpreservation drive to feelings, thus to the inner perceptions of existence. We stand, therefore, in a two-fold dependency upon nature through these two drives. The first becomes perceptible to us, when nature is lacking the conditions under which we attain cognitions; the second becomes perceptible to us, when nature contradicts the conditions under which it is possible for us to continue our existence. In the same way, we assert a twofold independence from nature through our reason: first, in that we (in the theoretical) go beyond the conditions of nature and we are able to think more than we realize; second, in that we (in the practical) disregard the conditions of nature and can contradict our desires through our will. An object, with whose perception we experience the first, is theoretically great, a sublime of cognition. An object, which allows us to feel the independence of our will, is practically great, a sublime of disposition. With the theoretical-sublime nature stands as an object of cognition in opposition to the conceptual drive. With the practical-sublime, it stands as an object of feeling in","PeriodicalId":427122,"journal":{"name":"From the Jewish Provinces","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123910756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}