Note 159 — APPENDIX A THEORIES OF THE WILL

Schiller wrote satirically of the categorical imperative from this point of view in his poem Die Philosophen (v. 35 ff.). Elsewhere (Werke, Goedeke Ed., X, p. 101) he opposes to what seems to him the “Draconian” severity of the Kantian reason, the point of view of the “beautiful soul.” Kant himself tended at the outset to base ethics on feeling. About 1770, however, he repudiated Shaftesbury and his followers on the ground that they were guilty of Epicureanism.