Schopenhauer's philosophy of music as breakthrough from the world of rationality

Abstract

The paper presented the analysis of A. Schopenhauer's musical philosophy development in his work "The world as will and representation". In the age of rationalistic research his thinking proved to be a turning point which gave a new philosophical beginning - irrationalism. In his philosophy the highest place in the world order was represented by music. Schopenhauer, carrying out research discrete steps consistently, develops a complete picture of the author's understanding concerning the ontological status of music as an immediate objectification of the World will in the material world. Prior to him I. Kant showed that an insurmountable barrier exists between sense perceptions and the world of things-in-themselves. This is something different, mysterious, not of this world; some immutable condition of human understanding. Schopenhauer explains the thing-in-itself by the World's will, which is an unknowable energy, thirst, desire. And this will find its immediate repose in music.