Kant, Schleiermacher and the world as God's work of art

I. Kant and F. Schleiermacher agreed that for human beings the world can be regarded as Gods work of art. However their anthropological and theological premises in this respect differ greatly, as does the way they use the term work of art according to their aesthetic theories. By examining each of their aesthetic perceptions of the word for its premises, the author shows that there is a different understanding of freedom and eternal life in the works of Kant and Schleiermacher and that there are many contrasting ways of dealing with evil in the world.