Considerations of a similar sort can be applied also, now, in relation to our experience of music. Here, too, it is phantasy-feelings which are involved as the presupposition of our (genuine) feelings of aesthetic pleasure. But the phantasy- feelings that are evoked by absolute music dispense with all presuppositions similar to those which one would find in a corresponding serious feeling: such phantasy-feelings are in this sense meaningless (are, as one might say, a matter of `pure will' - or of pure intoxication). Whoever is sad knows what he is sad about, and it is the thought of this.
