The Music of Our Lives

ISBN: 9780739120859 (0739120859)
Edition Type: Paperback
Publisher: Lexington Books
Pages: 262
Date Published: 24th Feb 2011

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Chapter 1 Foreword to the Revised Edition
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Music "in Itself": Its Development and Status
Chapter 4 The Many Faces of Form
Chapter 5 Music and Emotions: The History
Chapter 6 Music and Emotions: Theories, Problems, and Solutions
Chapter 7 The Ethical Aspects of Music: Music as Influence and Educator
Chapter 8 The Ethical Aspects of Music: Music as Metaphor, Symbol, and Model
Chapter 9 How Music can Assist Philosophical Ethics

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Although many of the world's musical traditions recognize the positive value of music for ethical life, the Western philosophical tradition has largely forgotten this idea. The dominance of formalism in musical aesthetics has encouraged this abandonment of the idea that music has an ethical dimension. Greater attention to musical experience and to the way that context affects the meaning that music has to performers and listeners helps to bring music's ethical potential into focus. In The Music of Our Lives, Kathleen Higgins argues that the arguments that Plato used to defend the ethical value of music are still applicable today. Music encourages ethically valuable attitudes and behavior, provides practice in skills that are valuable in ethical life, and symbolizes ethical ideals and the possibility of interpersonal harmony. In these ways it develops our ability to live well and to think clearly about our ethical situation. Music provides a model for the good human life.

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