[15] _Op. cit._ §§ 1-8. [16] See above, pp. 4-5. [17] _Krit. d. r. Vern._ § 8, and introd. to § ii.; cf. _Krit. d. Urth._ § 15. [18] See catalogue in Schlapp, _op. cit._ pp. 403-404, and _passim._ [19] _Krit. d. Urth._ §§ 1-9. [20] _Op. cit._ §§ 10-22. [21] Schlapp, _op. cit._ p. 78. [22] _Krit. d. Urth._ § 14. [23] For Kant's judgement of Herder, see Schlapp, _op. cit._ pp. 320-327, note. [24] _Kritik d. Orth._ §§ 57-59. IX THE ÆSTHETIC OF IDEALISM: SCHILLER, SCHELLING, SOLGER, HEGEL [Sidenote: _The "Critique of Judgment" and metaphysical idealism._] It is well known that Schelling held the _Critique of Judgment_ to be the most important of the three Kantian _Critiques,_ and that Hegel together with the great majority of the followers of metaphysical idealism had a special affection for the book. According to them the third _Critique_ was the attempt to bridge the gulf, to resolve the antitheses between liberty and necessity, teleology and mechanism, spirit and nature: it was the correction Kant was preparing for himself, the concrete vision which dispelled the last traces of his abstract subjectivism. [Sidenote: _F. Schiller._] The same admiration and an opinion even more favourable were extended by them to Friedrich Schiller, the first to elaborate that part of Kant's philosophy and to study the third sphere which united sensibility to reason. "It was the artistic sense dwelling in his also profoundly philosophical mind," says Hegel, "which, against the abstract infinity of Kant's thought, against his living for duty, against his conception of nature and reality, and of sense and feeling as utterly hostile to intellect, asserted the necessity and enunciated the principle of totality and reconciliation, even before it had been recognized by professed philosophers: to Schiller must be allowed the great merit of having been the first to oppose the subjectivity of Kant, and of having dared try to go beyond it."[1] [Sidenote: _Relations between Schiller and Kant._]