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The Supreme Musician

 

Plato / Socrates

The Musician is Wise

Very good, Thrasymachus, I said; and now to take the case of the arts: you would admit that one man is a musician and another not a musician?

Yes
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And which is wise and which is foolish?

Clearly the musician is wise, and he who is not a musician is foolish.

 

- Plato

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From "The Republic"

 

The Musician is Wise

 

The Roles of Various Modes

 

Music, a More Potent Instrument Than Any Other

 

The Parent of Temperance in the Soul

 

The True Musician and the Harmonist

 

Musical Innovation is a Danger to the State

Extracts from "Phaedo"

From "Laws"

From Timaeus