Monday Musings
On Plato, Beauty, and the Dangerous Power of Music
Somewhere between the third coffee and the fourth voice lesson last Friday, I started thinking about Plato. Like you do.
Plato had a thing for music. Not the “isn’t it lovely in the background at Whole Foods” kind of thing. No, for Plato, music was dangerous. A force so powerful it had to be tightly governed in his ideal Republic, lest it lead men astra…
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