Platonic music valuation
A poem or a music composition should be evaluated according to Plato (427-347 BC) from a public that has been carefully educated, because if is proposed to the citizens to give awards on a free subject races more or less complex with the only purpose to provide pleasure is clear that the evaluation would be affected from the age of the viewer, with the youngest perhaps inclined to prize the play, the women and the majority in general to the tragedy, while only the elderly for an accurate recitation of Homer and Hesiod. To decide what are the "ideal laws" suitable for regular assessments on the compositions of a new state should ensure that the verdict is influenced by the noise of the crowd ready to reward unseemly pleasures, not to take the risk that these rules ruin the tastes of all the audience and point instead to promote the noble ways of life and education of the population.
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Date: 03/12/2011
 article n°: 1753
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