Abstract
One of the most elevated plans of the spiritual life, so hard to catch and to reproduce through words, musical art is a “world” that needs to be known and understood. It is a “world” that deserves to be searched by the philosophical organon. Thus, we can find something of the “absolute Truth” as the “identity of the artistic-musical Beauty and the moral Good”. Actually, there is here an interweaving of the aesthetic and the ethical ideal, the registering of man as human, a synthesis of values and principles for an existence in liberty and dignity, in the logos, in order, in supreme harmony.
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Cozma, C. (2002). Musical Art as Enlightenment and Understanding Through Ethos: The Experience of the “Human”. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Life Truth in its Various Perspectives. Analecta Husserliana, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2085-4_9
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