{"title":"Attuning to the Cosmos","authors":"Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV1XG5H66.15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The essay discusses music and silence as two important paradigms for\n articulating spiritual progress in the Platonic corpus and its reception\n by Neoplatonic and Christian thinkers. After examining the importance\n of music in Plato’s theory of the soul, mainly in the Republic and the\n Timaeus, I argue that he appreciated music as a spiritual awakening, as\n preparation for the truth which is always experienced in deafening silence.\n Proclus, a sensitive reader of Plato, and later thinkers such as Proclus and\n Boethius, provided a secure path for the survival of Platonic ideas in the\n West. Petrarch, a meticulous reader of Augustine, grappling with the same\n Platonic notions that frustrated the fourth-century theologian, experiments\n boldly with Platonic silence in the Secretum and his Rime Sparse.","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1XG5H66.15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The essay discusses music and silence as two important paradigms for
articulating spiritual progress in the Platonic corpus and its reception
by Neoplatonic and Christian thinkers. After examining the importance
of music in Plato’s theory of the soul, mainly in the Republic and the
Timaeus, I argue that he appreciated music as a spiritual awakening, as
preparation for the truth which is always experienced in deafening silence.
Proclus, a sensitive reader of Plato, and later thinkers such as Proclus and
Boethius, provided a secure path for the survival of Platonic ideas in the
West. Petrarch, a meticulous reader of Augustine, grappling with the same
Platonic notions that frustrated the fourth-century theologian, experiments
boldly with Platonic silence in the Secretum and his Rime Sparse.
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