Arthur Schopenhauer · Philosophy
In the contemplation of beauty, Schopenhauer finds the first escape from suffering: the mind rises above individual things and personal desire to grasp the eternal Ideas, becoming a ‘pure, will-less subject of knowing’. Art halts the pendulum. And music, uniquely, is not a copy of the Ideas but of the will itself.
You learned that for Schopenhauer aesthetic contemplation silences the will: we cease to desire, become a pure will-less subject, and grasp the timeless Platonic Ideas, gaining temporary release from suffering. Music is special because it copies the will itself, not the Ideas. Explain the theory.
Leads to Plato.
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