How can music be a modus of accomplishing what Husserl calls“a radical,skeptical epochē”,that is,a way of refraining from judgment about all that is to be known?In order to answer the question,we have to first subm...How can music be a modus of accomplishing what Husserl calls“a radical,skeptical epochē”,that is,a way of refraining from judgment about all that is to be known?In order to answer the question,we have to first submit music itself to the act of epochē.This will allow us to get free from the widespread opinion that music is only an art,and to understand it in a broad sense,namely as a sphere of Being.This sphere is founded on the tone which,on its part,is thinkable not as an expression of the number(as in the Pythagorean tradition)or a medium for voicing,supplementing,or accompanying words,but as a primary essence enabling us to reach the truth of Being in a direct and immediate way.Hence,music provides an advantage for the one who chooses it as a way of accomplishing epochē.In providing immediate access to the truth of all thinkable things and of Being itself,it releases him from the necessity to cover any distance to it by passing through concepts,notions,and ideas in relation to which he is required to exercise the discipline of epochē.展开更多
基金financial support of the Scientific Research Fund attached to the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science within the framework of scientific project No.10/6,15.12.2016“Contemporary musical composition,theory and philosophy”.
文摘How can music be a modus of accomplishing what Husserl calls“a radical,skeptical epochē”,that is,a way of refraining from judgment about all that is to be known?In order to answer the question,we have to first submit music itself to the act of epochē.This will allow us to get free from the widespread opinion that music is only an art,and to understand it in a broad sense,namely as a sphere of Being.This sphere is founded on the tone which,on its part,is thinkable not as an expression of the number(as in the Pythagorean tradition)or a medium for voicing,supplementing,or accompanying words,but as a primary essence enabling us to reach the truth of Being in a direct and immediate way.Hence,music provides an advantage for the one who chooses it as a way of accomplishing epochē.In providing immediate access to the truth of all thinkable things and of Being itself,it releases him from the necessity to cover any distance to it by passing through concepts,notions,and ideas in relation to which he is required to exercise the discipline of epochē.
