Question

A philosopher from this country analogized social reform to fixing a clock without stopping it or letting it fail to tell the time. A thinker from this country attacked a fellow countryman’s focus on the “supersensible” and his theory of “disinterestedness” in his Kalligone. A thinker from this country argued that impure beauty, contingent on a concept’s applying to it, is “adherent beauty.” A thinker from this country distinguishes poets who “touch us through nature” from those who “touch us through thought” in his (*) “On Naive and Sentimental Poetry.” A thinker from this country posited “free play” (10[1])of imagination and understanding and listed the agreeable, the beautiful, the sublime, and the good as the four aesthetic judgements. For 10 points, name this home country of Friedrich Schiller and Immanuel Kant. ■END■

ANSWER: Germany [or Federal Republic of Germany; or Bundesrepublik Deutschland; or the German Empire; or Prussia]
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