This article points out how the MacIntyrean reading of Aristotelian ethics (particularly of the concept of virtue) already gathers some substantial points of Schiller’s philosophy about how sensitivity and rationality interact so that moral life is not reduced to a coercive force. Thus, at first, we will describe what moral life looks like when it adheres to the modern split up, to show later how the operational capacity of the Aristotelian virtue anticipated, before being fractionated by modern culture, substantive points of the relationship between sensibility and reason that Schiller sketches in his called third character.