TAILIEUCHUNG - SCHOPENHAUER ON THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL VALUE OF ART

In his exchange, Shakespeare reminds us that “suffering” in this sense is vital to the intense experience of being in love. It is interesting to note that a recurring theme across Shakespeare’s plays is the idea that power- ful forces beyond our control shape our lives. Whether the mischievous fairies in “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” or the tension between the Capulets and Montagues in “Romeo and Juliet,” forces shape the lives of Shakespeare’s characters and often seem impervious to reason and the best laid plans. In fact, one . | Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 5 No. 3 December 2008 Schopenhauer on the epistemological value of art vid Simoniti Christ Church university of Oxford Art as discussed in the third book of Arthur Schopenhauer s The World as Will and Representation plays a double role in his philosophical system. On one hand beholding an object of aesthetic worth provides the spectator with a temporary cessation of the otherwise incessant suffering that Schopenhauer takes life to be on the other art creates an epistemological bridge between ourselves and the world as it really is unlike science which only studies relations between things contemplation of art leads to knowledge of that which is alone really essential to the world the true content of its phenomena. WWR1 184 It is this second aspect of Schopenhauer s aesthetics that is both appealing and curious while Schopenhauer s aesthetics and epistemology are both rooted in his picture of the world as Will which is taken at face value deeply counter-intuitive it yet seems to me that by assigning epistemic value to art he manages to capture the quality of profundity with which certain works of art strike us - a profundity that is accounted for neither by reference to mere enjoyment nor by reference to paraphrasable propositional knowledge. It is this tension between the plausible and extravagant elements of Schopenhauer s philosophy of art that i will try to relieve in this paper. i will firstly point to the difficulties that Schopenhauer s account runs into when we consider his treatment of Platonic Ideas and will then suggest a way in which Schopenhauer s insights about aesthetics can still be preserved if we separate them from a literal reading of his metaphysics. The way in which Schopenhauer s account of the epistemic value of aesthetic experience arises out of his metaphysical position can perhaps be best characterised by invoking the two main points of difference between his idealism and that of Kant. Vid Simoniti .

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