Jul 17, 2018
Are music and morals linked? In that case, what’s the nature of
that connection? Are sure musical sounds morally dangerous or good in
themselves, or are they impartial? May the affect of music on
morality be of an oblique variety? Is there such a factor as a
virtuous method of listening to music? Can music put together us for the
non secular life? Do it’s important to be an excellent individual to make stunning
music? I focus on these questions and extra with theologian Fr. Basil
Cole, O.P., an newbie jazz pianist who wrote his dissertation on
the ethical results of music (to not be confused with one other Fr.
Basil who has additionally commented on the identical topic!).
Hyperlinks
Basil Cole, O.P. bio
https://www.dominicanajournal.org/preacher-professor-and-author-extraordinaire/
Learn Fr. Basil’s dissertation https://www.catholicculture.org/tradition/library/view.cfm?recnum=11968
Fr. Basil articles at CC
https://www.catholicculture.org/search/resultslist.cfm?requesttype=docbrowseauth&resourcetype=1&catlabel=creator&catid=85
Glorious article on the Rosary by Fr. Basil
https://www.catholicculture.org/tradition/library/view.cfm?recnum=9226
Jeff Mirus’s evaluate of Music and Morals https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=510
Jeff Mirus’s evaluate of The Hidden Enemies of the
Priesthood https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/articles.cfm?id=253
Jeff Mirus’s evaluate of Christian Totality https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=842
Additional really useful studying (not talked about in
episode):
Elisabeth-Paule Labat, O.S.B., The Tune That I Am: On the
Thriller of Music https://amzn.to/2LemFYY
Timestamps
3:16 Fr. Basil Cole interview
4:05 Fr. Basil’s musical background
10:01 Refuting the declare that sure musical sounds are
intrinsically morally dangerous or good
12:20 Widespread misapplication of Plato’s idea of music
18:28 Does music imitate or categorical feelings?
20:05 Why sure personalities may really feel threatened by musical
creativity; the need of danger in artwork and the non secular life
25:31 Why the philosophers haven’t understood music: it goes
past cause and ideas
31:32 How good music teaches us to “rejoice rightly”
37:34 Music as faculty of contemplation
44:34 Magnificence and morality: an oblique relationship; can music
promote morality via happiness?
48:31 Temperance in listening to music
51:17 Is mediocre music morally degrading?
55:08 Utilizing music to foster false identification and narcissistic
sentimentality vs. true self-knowledge via contemplation
59:16 The vice of curiositas in music: music streaming
tempts us to superficial musical gluttony
1:01:05 Curiositas: Over-analysis and musical
snobbery
1:03:28 What Frank Serpico can educate us about music and
integrity
1:06:38 Do it’s important to be an excellent individual to make stunning
music?
1:10:50 What virtues does an artist want?
1:13:02 How you can start listening to music extra deeply
1:15:47 This week’s excerpt: Sirach 32:5
