柏拉图音乐伦理价值思想探析

Plato's Idea about the Ethic Value of Music

柏拉图把音乐对心灵的净化与他伦理意义上最高的“善”理念和建立理想国的政治理想紧密结合,认为好的音乐可以塑造人的灵魂,培养人的理智、激情、节制和正义等美德,从而凸显了音乐的伦理价值,揭示了音乐所蕴含的深层文化心理结构。这一思想至今仍有着积极意义。

Plato combined the purifying function of music and his notion of ＂goodness＂ as well as his political ideal to build an ＂ideal state＂. He believed that good music could reshape people＇s souls and cultivate virtues such as reason, passion, self control and righteousness, thus having ethic value. This idea of his is still of positive significance nowadays.