Abstract
This paper investigates musical education in Magnesia, as it is proposed in Plato’s Laws. Its roleand nature are examined in its main parts. Musical education is supposed to begin before birth,in order to prepare the child as still a fetus to choral music. Such an effort has obviously apolitical aim, for choral music connects man to the cosmos, being thus the most appropriate wayto cement the constitution, and provides a justification for the divine and human character of theconstitution as well.
Highlights
This paper investigates musical education in Magnesia, as it is proposed in Plato’s Laws
Il innove en l'appliquant à la forme du mouvement que le corps humain accomplit dans la danse, et à la disposition des figures en lesquelles ce mouvement se résout [...] Voilà le sens nouveau de ruthmos : la « disposition » est chez Platon constituée par une séquence ordonnée de mouvements lents et rapides, de même que l'« harmonie résulte de l'alternance de l'aigu et du grave
16 Journal of Ancient Philosophy Vol V 2011 Issue 1 aux arts mimétiques au livre X de la République concernent une imitation qui se voudrait concurrente de la philosophie64 ; par ailleurs, il n'est pas sûr que musique et danse, au sens restreint, soient visées par ces critiques (du moins, les interlocuteurs n'en parlent-ils jamais explicitement)
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This paper investigates musical education in Magnesia, as it is proposed in Plato’s Laws.
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