“True Idealism Is Realism”. Schiller as the Poet of the Ideal in Hermann Cohen

The paper highlights how Hermann Cohen's interpretation of Schiller is based on Platonism and Kantianism. Schiller is considered by Cohen to be “the poet of the ideal”, the true successor to Kantian aesthetics, who clearly understood the simple, profound and eternally true meaning of the Kantian method of philosophizing. Schiller embodies the true meaning of philosophy, which not only identifies with Platonic idealism, but also understands authentic idealism as realism. For Schiller, in fact, the ideal and form are not opposed to reality, since, on the contrary, it is they, through idealisation, that constitute reality as form, that is, as idea.