Translation Check - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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In Epinomis[1] (982c–e) Plato stated that “as proof that the stars and the whole moving system of the heavens possess intelligence, mankind ought to consider the fact that the stars always do the same things and have done so for an amazingly long time. Because they are carrying out what was planned long ago, they do not alter their plans now this way, now that, sometimes doing one thing and sometimes another, wandering and changing their orbits.” This is why “the nature of the stars is the fairest to behold, for they dance the fairest and most magnificent procession and choral dance of all the choruses in the world…”
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