Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Commenting on this passage, Miller[1] (1986: p. 73) wrote that “The Mosaic choreia is more than a display of universal rationality. It is essentially a religious movement, a… ‘wholly sacred chorus’ expressing the love felt by man and nature for the transcendent Ruler of the universe.”
Yet at the same time, “Astronomy, music, mathematics, and all the branches of philosophy were not ends in themselves, …but simply preparations for leading the life of virtue and piety which allowed the human spirit to leap into the Kingdom of Heaven.” Philo thus “imagined the Lord as a Socratic teacher.” In his essay “On the Change of Names”[2] (72–73) Philo asked…Can someone with access to the full text of Miller 1986 check this quotation? We think it might be on page 74 (one page after this link), but we can’t preview it.
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- ↑ James L. Miller, Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity (Toronto: 1986), p. 73.
- ↑ Philo of Alexandria, “On the Change of Names,” in Philo: In Ten Volumes (And Two Supplementary Volumes), F.H. Colson (tr.), Vol. 5 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1929), p. 179, 72–73.
