Schiller was also very influential person and his works were the basis of many psychological questions. His subjectivity, in the type of the sensuous drive, plays very important role in studying the aesthetic process. Together with the work of Kant, his work was very important contribution in the studying of aesthetic process.
According to him this process is not resulted in the development of society or state. The individual, when he is free in the moment of reflection given by the aesthetic has natural character. And this character, whether it is selfish and violent or not, has the aim to break down the society rather than to preserve it. Schiller defends the subjective individual over the state. His famous work “On the Aesthetic Education of Man” was written soon after the events of French Reign of Terror. These events influenced greatly his views of individual values and the protection of person by the state. He says that the main aim of culture and the aesthetic process is to watch the functioning of two drives, preserve both of them and secure proper borders for each of them, because the state very often does not do it. Germany was considered by Schiller as the state, dividing into many small principalities, the state was not the unifying force. Aesthetics and culture, which may be called the features of subjective individual, made a German nationhood, received the place of politics. Contrasting the France in revolution era, Schiller said that the state must not only defend the objective character of its individuals, it also has to respect their subjective and definite character.
While some other philosophers worked out the problem of objectivity, Schiller in his work distinguished the value of subjectivity as main force in making society and culture.