 It should be stressed that, according to Schopenhauer, music does not arouse such emotions in the listener, and if it did, it would not be valuable on those grounds. In fact, the value of music resides exactly in its capacity to present us with the Will in its highest degree of objectivation, without having to experience its stirrings ourselves—the latter experience would be an inherently unpleasant one, according to Schopenhauer. The value of music as art is thus, according to Schopenhauer, eminently cognitive.