The educational project of German romanticism, as an aesthetic, political and moral response to the problems of modernity and its pedagogical model

Abstract

In this article, we focus on some of the postulates of German romanticism to address humanity's education. Despite being proposals written centuries ago, we collect them in order to criticize certain modern conceptions about knowledge and the formation of the individual. Based on this, we explain the need to return to those thinkers and recognize art and aesthetics as a method for human beings' education. We firstly make a critique of the enlightened ideal, which, associated with capitalism, reduces the individual to a commercial category involved in a constant selfish struggle. In addition, we expose from Schiller, Lessing and other authors the importance of aesthetic education, together with the political and moral factor that surrounds art. That led us to recognize it as a vital discipline within the transformation and development of humanity.