 The plays of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and other "Sturm und Drang" playwrights, inspired a growing faith in feeling and instinct as guides to moral behavior.Romantics borrowed from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant to formulate the theoretical basis of "Romantic" art.According to Romantics, art is of enormous significance because it gives eternal truths a concrete, material form that the limited human sensory apparatus may apprehend.