Music as One of The Philosophical Sciences

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Throughout human history, music has been not only an artistic phenomenon but aslo an object of philosophical thought. Its nature, functions, and influence on consciousness and sociyeti have intrigued philosophers from ancient times to the present day. This article analyzes the main philosophical concepts related to music, its status, aesthetic aspects, its connection with aesthetics, and its role in shaping cultural and moral values. Special attention is given to the impact of music on worldview formation, its significance in cultural and personal development, and the philosophy of Eastern music. Keywords: Music, philosophy, aesthetics, consciousness, art, Eastern music, culture, music pedagogy. Aristotle, on the other hand, viewed music as a means Introduction: Music is a universal phenomenon of purifying the emotions. He wrote that music could present in all cultures. Its perception does not require educate character and develop the capacity for knowledge of language or complex symbolic systems, aesthetic pleasure [1-383]. but at the same time it has a powerful impact on human consciousness. For centuries, philosophers have tried In the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer proposed a to answer the questions: what is music? How does it radically new understanding of music. In his work The affect a person? Why does it evoke emotions? Ancient World as Will and Representation, he argued that philosophers considered music in the context of music is the purest expression of the will, the harmony and cosmic order. Medieval thinkers studied fundamental force underlying all existence. Unlike it from the standpoint of theology, linking it with divine painting and literature, which represent the world design. Then the philosophy of music shifted towards through images, music, in his opinion, directly aesthetics, and in the 20th century it acquired an expresses the essence of being. Music, in his opinion, interdisciplinary character, combining philosophy, does not need intermediaries in the form of concepts psychology, sociology and cognitive sciences. This or forms, therefore it affects a person more deeply than article analyzes the main philosophical approaches to other types of art. Its ability to awaken emotions and understanding music, its place in aesthetics and social an intuitive understanding of the world makes it the philosophy. One of the most ancient philosophical most metaphysical of all the arts. In the Confucian views on music was proposed by the Pythagoreans. tradition, music plays a key role in education. Confucius They believed that music is a manifestation of the argued that music, like ritual, helps to establish harmony of the spheres - the mathematical order harmony in society. He distinguished between inherent in the Universe. Musical intervals such as the "correct" music, ennobling the soul, and "destructive" octave, fifth, and fourth were discovered to be music, leading to moral decline. Eastern scholars in mathematically precise ratios, which became the basis their books and encyclopedias initially considered for subsequent philosophical and musical theories. music to be one of the subjects of philosophy and, undoubtedly, they took into account the artistic, Plato argued that music had a profound effect on the aesthetic and educational role of music. During the human soul and could shape its moral character. He heyday of the culture of the Arab Caliphate (10th proposed the use of certain musical modes for century), the tendency to conceptualize the science of education, while other musical forms, in his opinion, music in the works of Eastern scholars intensified, should be limited, since they could corrupt the soul. which indicates the emergence of its methodological American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research 45 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajsshr American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research (ISSN: 2771-2141) foundations, important for the development of music historical memory - there are no musical traditions, as a science. Signs of such innovations are found in the musical culture, without musical culture - there is no "Treatise on Music" and "Philosophical Treatises" of al- musical education, spirituality, and without spirituality Farabi [2-42], who was called the "second teacher" - there is no personality, no people. Thus, the goal of (Aristotle was considered the first), and who delved musical education in pedagogy is the education of into the essence of musical science in every possible musical culture of youth, as part of the general spiritual way. Al-Farabi also investigated the human perception culture. The concept of education of musical culture of music, color and smell and revealed the ability of includes the level of development of emotional these physiological qualities to affect certain feelings. It responsiveness, artistic thinking, aesthetic taste and was al-Farabi, who can rightfully be called the first musical and creative abilities, skills