Schopenhauer's Concept Of Aesthetics Summary

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Llenos, Theresiana I. 3 PHL Music, Arts, and Genius: An Exposition of Schopenhauer’s Concept of Aesthetics INTRODUCTION: In a world where suffering is part of our everyday lives, Schopenhauer produces an answer on why people, like us, tend to suffer. According to Schopenhauer, we suffer everyday because our mind represents the world as thinking of oneself only (egocentric) and disregards of what others may feel or have felt. It composes of the external objects and its relation or benefit towards the being (benefactor) and disregarding if others would not benefit as long as he gets the object of his desire. For Schopenhauer, our consciousness is in the service of our will. It is common in the philosophy world that for us to know our very being, essence, and meaning we have to look inside our very own self and in successfully doing that, we also figure out the essence or meaning of the universe for we are as one with it. Everything that is within the universe is all connected for we are like river; we flow in the same direction which connects everything in it and with one mean or end. But for Schopenhauer, there is only one relative object that is present in each and every one of us – our physical body. But Schopenhauer classified our physical body in two categories; one is the Will, it is subjective and within, and the other one is the representation, objective and outside or external. Our will is the one who is responsible for our surviving skills. It functions as the