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Plato on Music, Soul and Body.
Title:
Plato on Music, Soul and Body.
Author:
Pelosi, Francesco.
ISBN:
9780511915178
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Music and philosophy -- Plato's philosophy of mind -- Plato's 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.
Abstract:
Offers a new perspective from which to study the relationship between soul, body and music in Plato's philosophy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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