Aristotle Scientific method:

1) material causes: what initial object consists of

2) final cause/goal: reason why object exists
3) formal cause: how the object is made
4) efficient cause: who made it

Plato Methodology: there is a world that exists in itself, regardless of human existence

1) essence: the eternal archetypes

2) experience: particular objects, depends on sense organs, sense perception changes
o What underlies experience? Eternal archetypes, eg. Physical loss, molecular structure
3) art as imitation

Schopenhauer

Based his methodology on Platos

1) there is a world will, chaoticthe world in itself
2) essence: archetypesphysical laws, the world will
3) experience: individual objectscolumn holding up forces
4) art as imitation: artarchitecture
Only music can express the world willpure, raw artform, sublime and transcending experience
o Completely lose self, are immersed in flux of life=world will
o Best express emotions
Pg. 193= paragraph 30
o Representation, object for a subject, at the bottom of all is a chaotic subject
o Objectivity of the will= we are all objectifications of the world will
o Original and unchanging forms, universal forces