Music as an Expression of the Character of Reality: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson

The diploma thesis examines the role of music as an expression of certain deep moment of reality in the philosophical conceptions of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson. The first part of the work points out the fact that these different theories are connected by the emphasis on the aspect of musicality. For the observed authors, music in its creation and perception means leaving the everyday, shallow grasping of reality and denying the false claim of the objective rationality. In the musical "ecstasy", we immediately encounter the world in its deep nature. That determines a special position of music among other kinds of art and some common and significant features of examined theories. The second part of the work deals with conception of music beyond the categories of codified art. It presents music in the form of a psychologically, physiologically and culturally effective element namely in Nietzsche's and Bergson's thought. Finally, the work identifies the dualism of the romantic and the post-romantic tendency as a frame that establishes thinking about music. The diploma thesis aims to present the position of music a musicality in the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Bergson. It points out significant features of these conceptions of music and highlights the dual..