Exploring the Spiritual and Moral Light and Dark Sides of Musical Experience and Appreciation

Autor/in	Carr, David
Titel	Exploring the Spiritual and Moral Light and Dark Sides of Musical Experience and Appreciation
Quelle	In: Philosophy of Music Education Review, 18 (2010) 2, S.130-144 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1063-5734
DOI	10.2979/PME.2010.18.2.130
Schlagwörter	Music Education; Spiritual Development; Moral Values; Music Appreciation; Religion; Philosophy; Moral Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Musikbeurteilung; Philosophie; Moralische Entwicklung
Abstract	Moral significance has been attributed to music from antiquity: for example, both Plato and Aristotle made much of the power of music to influence and shape moral character. However, it would also seem often assumed that music and musical experience have some kind of spiritual significance or value for human development. The present paper sets out to explore this possibility further by asking: first, whether it is possible to make sense of spiritual development in a non-reductive way--in a way, that is, which might distinguish such growth from moral or aesthetic development; and second, what sort of qualities, capacities, or dispositions might distinctively spiritual qualities be? However, having identified a range of candidate spiritual virtues, the essay proceeds to explore the further possibility that some works or genres of music may--by much the same token--be conducive to the promotion of less spiritually desirable attitudes or values. (As Provided).
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