The philosopher who claimed that the appreciation of beauty "frees us from the penal servitude of willing" was

A) Confucius.
B) Schiller.
C) Schopenhauer.
D) Kant.

The philosopher who claimed that the appreciation of beauty "frees us from the penal servitude of willing" was Schopenhauer. This idea is central to his philosophy, which emphasizes the importance of aesthetic experience as a way of escaping the suffering caused by our desires and attachments to the material world. Schiller and Kant also wrote about aesthetics, but their views on the relationship between beauty and the will were not as prominent as Schopenhauer's. Confucius, on the other hand, was a Chinese philosopher who lived many centuries before the development of Western aesthetics.