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The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues 1st Edition

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 16, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184465267X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844652679
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA totally new approach to Plato's Dialogues: from literal interpretations and towards allegorical interpretation
By Dagfinn Koch on May 7, 2015
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A mind blowing book, and I would like to quote a review by Mr. Lee Trepanier's, Saginaw Valley State University, wich sums up witch insights this book has to offer: "J.B. Kennedy’s The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues seeks to establish that Plato divided some, if not all, of his dialogues into twelve equal sections. These twelve sections, Kennedy argues, correlate with the Pythagorean twelve division multi-octave musical scale. From his analysis of the Symposium and Euthyphro, Kennedy argues that Plato used the underlying musical scale as an outline for his dialogues, with arguments appearing between notes and major turns in the argument located as notes. These findings support the interpretations of Plato’s followers who insisted that Plato used symbols to conceal his own views in the dialogues. They would also turn contemporary commentators of Plato away from literal interpretations and towards allegorical ones that Plato himself perhaps used."

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5.0 out of 5 starsA footnote to Plato - not the De Vinci code
By Amazon Customer on January 4, 2014
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It is often said that all Western Philosophy is but a footnote to Plato, and this book is an extraordinary footnote indeed! Professor Kennedy argues on mathematical and musical grounds that there is level of meaning encoded in the structure Plato's work and that moreover the underlying material is asserting that Pythagorean mathematics is the basis for understanding the functioning of the universe, not the gods. On the surface just the kind of idea beloved of novelists like Dan Brown, but Professor Kennedy is a scientist making a serious argument basing his theory on counting the lines in the original text and the appearance at precise musical intervals in the Greek scale of key ideas - positive where the interval is harmonious and negative where the interval is dissonant. Note: I have not read this book yet but I have read Professor Kennedy's earlier announcements of having discovered a hidden symbolic structure in Plato's dialogues and found it worthy of serious consideration. There is a lot of material on the web including interviews of Professor Kennedy for prospective readers to check. So like a lot of other people I have been waiting for this book. Interestingly Plato's ancient followers asserted that his work contained a hidden symbolic structure based on Pythagoras but in the absence of convincing evidence modern scholars have naturally discounted it. Kennedy's discovery emerged while teaching a course based on his specialized knowledge of the mathematics of ancient music and simultaneously teaching a course on Plato's philosophy. While many authors purposely obscure meaning for a variety of reasons Professor Kennedy argues powerfully that the threat of religious persecution motivated Plato.Read more ›
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