| Summary: | We will briefly present Schopenhauer's metaphysical clarification of the beautiful - which, for him, "first received its proper explanation along the whole. .. third book” of "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung". Generally speaking, Schopenhauer clarifies that the knowledge of the beautiful rises above ordinary and scientific knowledge: for the latter has, on the objective side, the relative and fleeting phenomena of the principle of reason, and on the subjective side, the knowing subject subordinate to the Will (needy, dissatisfaction and tedium), whereas the beautiful has on the objective side, the eternal and archetypal ideas of Plato, the "best possible objectification of the Will," and on the subjective side, "the pure and timeless subject of knowledge devoid of will and suffering". However, the beautiful is still a "passing dream" to the philosopher, because it only briefly liberates from the will, and not definitely, as asceticism does.
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