Abstract: Temporality is the key to Schiller's aesthetics and aesthetic education, which should be elucidated. Schiller believes that temporality must be followed in order to give a clear account of the fundamental differences between the perceptual impulse and the rational impulse in terms of their composition. He argues that the game impulse, which is of narrow temporality, cannot have far foresight, that the rational impulse as maxims, ethical norms and religious gods can negate time, and that temporality is by no means a tertiary criterion independent of the other two impulses. Only in the game impulse can rationality be activated and developed in perceptual activities and maintained in games. Schiller's thought on the "living image" is mainly an analysis of the "flow" of the inner time-conscious dimensions of aesthetic activities. This thought is the foundation for Schiller's aesthetic education.

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