The genius’ drama in the metaphysics of the schopenhauer’s beautiful: his highest expression in "Torquato Tasso" by Goethe

Abstract

To Schopenhauer, a genius is characterized by the surplus of the faculty of knowing, which allows these individuals to have immediate access to the Idea through the intuitive contemplation, while a pure being of the knowledge. However, this potentiality amplifies the genius’ will, when the status of individual is retaken. According to the philosopher, the surplus of the faculty of knowing may take two guidances, which exclude themselves: the objective guidance, when one is freed from the bondage of the will, or the indirect guidance, occasion when the surplus is available to the individual guidance. As a consequence of the surplus, the genius either neglects suffering or suffers radically. This article intends to present the following hypothesis: the genius goes through existential drama that greatly surpasses the natural suffering inherent to other people. Thereunto, Torquato Tasso, Goethe’s work, was utilized, since it has been mentioned by Schopenhauer