This work aims to study the theory of the German philosopher Friedrich Schiller about beauty and demonstrate how such theory as exposed in The aesthetic education of man presents a new type of freedom, characteristic of the aesthetic state of mind, which carries a political promise. According to Schiller, the Enlightenment failed and the French Revolution degenerated into terror because of an imbalance between reason and feeling in culture. The human being is a being of mixed nature, so that reason and feeling need to be in balance for their fullness. Starting from the aesthetics of Immanuel Kant, Schiller argued that, when contemplating beauty, no human aptitude dominates the subject, who reaches a state of suspension, active and passive at the same time: the aesthetic state. In it, both their laws harmonize. The French thinker Jacques Rancière argued, in Aesthetics and Its Discontents that Schiller s aesthetic education can be an alternative to the old idea of political revolution, since it configures a new type of experience of the sensible without domination and without hierarchies, where everyone is equal and where feeling is not subjugated by reason. There is, in the experience of the aesthetic free play the revocation of the dominion that reason established over sensibility, such as that undertaken by the oppressor over the oppressed. Art, as described by Schiller and Rancière, is not at the service of a certain Poetics or ideology. Nor is it art for art s sake. This new aesthetic regime is characterized by autonomy in the form of the experience of the sensible, which go es beyond the aesthetic to the political, from beauty to freedom.