Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
Nietzsche and Schopenhauer had a certain love for music and are seen to be the philosophers of music and art.
Schopehauer believed that music is just organised sound.
We all like different music and believe a certain type of music is 'better' than another, we all have different tastes. We don't know when a piece of music is at complete perfection or when a note is the perfect one, although, we do know when we are close to it. We all have an aesthetic response to music and anything artistic BUT music will have the strongest aesthetic response of them all.
--> this links to Plato (Kant can be seen as a revival of Plato), Plato's cave --> things are different when they are not being observed and the theory of 'perfect forms'.
Schopenhauer --> The World as Will and Representation
-Schopenhauer has the same views as Kant, more or less, the difference is --> Schopenhauer believes there is only one noumena.
Buddhism --> everything is a dream. nothing is there. nothing is real. --> the meditation (OMM) = the sound the world made before the world began. --> how do we know, if there was nobody there to hear it???
-The essence of the universe (the principle of existence) - why is there being-ness? --> Nietzsche believes that it is because of God but why did God let things go wrong then??? (existence itself is stronger than God)
The will (like Kant's noumena)
(the will to be/the will to survive)
(the will to power --> Nietzsche)
Schopenhauer believed that you must control every desire that you have --> links to Buddhism and meditation. Schopenhauer believed that the only possible way to overcome desire (the we all feel) is through music(art).
Freud believed the complete opposite and thought that humans can not control their own desires, they must give in to the pleasure of desire.
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