Abstract

SUNOL, Viviana. The emotional function of musical education in Aristotle. Prax. filos. [online]. 2018, n.47, pp.137-155. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i47.6602.

Aristotle occupies a prominent place in the history of the philosophical reflection on the emotions. In spite of the innumerable variety of interpretations to which the study of this subject in his thought has produce in the last four decades in the scholarship, the role and the importance that emotional habituation has in the educational musical program of the best regime, which Aristotle sketches in the last book of the Politics practically has not been considered. Precisely, the purpose of the present paper is to analyze the emotional process that this discipline arouses in the audience and to determine its purpose. The ethical function of mousiké enables the development of virtue through a process of habituation of children, which is based on the emotional influence that characterizes this discipline. By analyzing the two brief passages in which Aristotle refers to the emotions and the consideration of the tacit and explicit ethnographic-musical references that appear in Politics 8. 5-7, I will try to show that this musical function aims to achieve the control of the emotions of the citizens during their childhood and their "cure" in adult life.

Keywords : emotions; education; mousiké; politics; ethics.

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