Schopenhauer’s influence through art

2 Commentsby   |  02.21.11  |  Renaissance/Premodern (Part II)

Arthur Schopenhauer’s influence humanity on the most romantic way possible. Schopenhauer’s philosophy reacted strongly against the scientific rationalization of the Age of Enlightenment. He directly challenged the hegemony of science as the sole way of understanding humanity.

Schopenhauer’s belief in literature and other literalistic modes of expression influences our belief today of children learning through the arts. Our emotions are so easily influenced by our experiences with the arts, they can shape whole cultures.

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  1. Brittany Rexroat
    9:34 pm, 02.21.11

    It’s incredible when you hear about things such as arts can have such an impact on our society as a whole. It helps us learn, read, expand our knowledge of the past as well as the future. Its also interesting to think of what it might bring to us in times to come and how it will further change our outlook on life.

  2. Jodi Bell
    11:33 pm, 02.21.11

    I learned that a lot too in my research on Goethe. He amazed me with his concepts on architecture and nature and music. How we can find joy and praise in everything we do and see. It made me think about all the ways we can choose to worship God, other than our voices.

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