集诗人、戏剧家和思想家于一身的席勒,其思想的整体之真正开端在于他的早期诗歌,尤其是他极具代表性的长诗。由诗歌所开启的席勒之思,首先在于对普遍人性的爱与赞美——普遍的人性体现在同时代的哲学里即是对人的理性的普遍承认;其次是自然在人的反思中的失落与异化;最后是向以美为规定性的自然的回归,人以自然的自由失去的,以自由的自然重新获得。这些诗歌、进而整个的席勒思想因其体现着近代的时代精神,而与同时代的哲学相关联,确切地说,同时代的哲学继承智慧提出的问题,将其规定在自己的体系中。
A poet, dramatist and thinker, Schiller revealed his thoughts in his early works, particularly in his long poems. First of all, he praised love of the common humanity followed by the reflection of the loss and alienation of the nature, and a return to aesthetic nature: what man lose in natural freedom could be regained in a free natural way. These poems, and Schiller's thinking embodies the time spirit of modern Europe, thus emboding the relationship between wisdom and philosophy, or more precisely, the philosophy inherits the question wisdom raises, and holds them in their own system.