플라톤의 음악과 형이상학적 신체

Abstract

Plato, in his theory of education, viewed that music is the foundation of aesthetic education and insisted that it is closely related to physical education. Based on Platos such a discussion, this study analyzed the correlation between music education and physical education, and drew conclusions as follows. 1. For Plato, music is useful in raising a guardian who will lead the construction of the ideal state and the ultimate goal pursued by man and music is love for beauty or beauty itself. 2. Human beings explore the value of music through philosophical reasoning and as a result their thought reaches man and the universe. In the course an ethical aspect is involved along with philosophical reflection and musical theories aims at the creation of consciously formed art. 3. In Platos theory of education, spiritual education is fulfilled through physical education and music education. A guardian must be courageous through physical education and a true musician is one who realizes the true nature of idea through the reasoning of soul purified in music. 4. To be a virtuous man, namely, an ethically perfect man, excessive courage developed by physical training should be tamed through musical education. In this sense, musical education is an indispensable element. 5. The immortality of the soul requires the assistance of music and the body. Platos such a philosophical ideal emerged later as the mind/body monism by his disciple Aristotle.