  As earlier mentioned, “On Grace and Dignity” has traditionally been read as a critique of Kant’s moral theory rather than of his aesthetics, arguing for greater moral significance for feelings in line with our principled commitment to morality than Kant acknowledges. It looks as if Schiller holds that the ideal for moral conduct is that complete attunement between the determination of the will by moral principles and our natural and instinctive desires and inclinations that is expressed in grace. Further, it seems that this is only because he recognizes that such attunement will not always be possible for human beings that he admits that there is sometimes a need for that mastery over refractory feelings that expresses itself in dignity—but only as a fall-back or second-best state of character, rather than, as Kant seems to suppose, the norm for the human moral condition. 