Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire
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Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire

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Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire

About this book

Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? And is it of interest just to musicians? By exploring different authors and philosophical trends of the Roman Empire, from Philo of Alexandria to Alexander of Aphrodisias, from the rebirth of Platonism with Plutarch to the last Neoplatonists, this book sheds light on different ways in which music and musical notions were made a crucial part of philosophical discourse. Far from being mere metaphors, notions such as harmony, concord and attunement became key philosophical tools in order to better grasp and conceptualise fundamental notions in philosophical debates from cosmology to ethics and from epistemology to theology. The volume is written by a distinguished international team of contributors.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781108832274
eBook ISBN
9781108936330
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 The Scala Naturae and Music: Two Models in Philo’s Thought
  11. Chapter 2 Music and Plutarch’s Platonic Cosmos
  12. Chapter 3 The Harmoniser God: Harmony as a Cosmological Model in Middle Platonist Theology
  13. Chapter 4 Alexander of Aphrodisias and Musical Models for Ontological Enquiries
  14. Chapter 5 How to Resist Musical Dogmatism: The Aim and Methods of Pyrrhonian Inquiry in Sextus Empiricus’ Against the Musicologists (Math. 6)
  15. Chapter 6 Shifting Epistemological Perspectives in Ptolemy’s Harmonics: From the Science of Sound to the Study of Music
  16. Chapter 7 Musical Imagery in Clement of Alexandria and Origen: The Greek Musical World Revised and Accepted
  17. Chapter 8 Plotinus on Music, Rhythm, and Harmony
  18. Chapter 9 Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics: Questions of Philosophic and Scientific Identity
  19. Chapter 10 The Music of the Virtues in Late Ancient Platonism
  20. Chapter 11 Harmonics as Theological Paradigm in Proclus
  21. Chapter 12 Calcidius on Cosmic Harmony
  22. Chapter 13 Harmonia in Philoponus’ Commentary on Nicomachus’ Introduction to Arithmetic
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index Locorum
  25. General Index

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