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Plato on music, soul and body /

Plato's reflection on the relationship between soul and body has attracted scholars' attention since antiquity. Less noted, but worthy of consideration, is Plato's thought on music and its effects on human beings. This book adopts an innovative approach towards analysing the soul-body...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pelosi, Francesco
Otros Autores: Henderson, Sophie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Music and philosophy
  • Platos philosophy of mind
  • Platos philosophy of music
  • A journey through music and philosophy
  • Chapter 1 Musical education of sensibility
  • Music in early childhood and musical education
  • The theory of thos and musical mimesis
  • Chapter 2 Moving to music: a therapy for the rational soul
  • The alliance of music and soul
  • Music for thinking
  • Chapter 3 Musical education of rationality
  • Harmonics beyond sound
  • Moving towards a science of harmony
  • Chapter 4 Music in the body and soul
  • Acoustic phenomena and perceptive mechanisms
  • Sounds and voices in the dialogues
  • Physics, physiology and psychology: sound and perception
  • Physics, physiology and psychology: concord and perception
  • The musicality of the psychic structure
  • The soul, harmony of corporeal elements
  • The soul, harmony of psychic elements: breaking up and musical reassembly of the psych
  • The soul, harmony of Being, Same and Different: musical multiplicity in the rational psych
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index.