Did any prominent philosophers discuss music at length? looking for names to look up and read
Some existentialists use it as a metaphor, but that's all I know of. Sartre loved Jazz.
>>2419422
neat, thanks
Weber, Adorno, Nietzsche
Plato thought emotive music was degenerate or something
>>2419551
>And so he settled on just two: the Dorian and the Phrygian. The Dorian, he said, would "fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare," while the Phrygian was suitable "for a man engaged in works of peace."
the fucking city of this guy
Don't forget Schopenhauer.
>>2419422
No. I hate music and never listen to it and I'm fine. Its just bullshit sounds for normies who can't feel anything unless a string vibrating tells them too.
Confucius
>>2419616
ugh, not even a good bait anon
1/10
>>2419653
that's not bait, it was just a joke
>>2419422
Adorno has thousands of pages on music
Eco, while not a straight up philosopher, wrote some interesting insights into avant-garde music in Opera Aperta.
>>2419673
>Adorno
>Frankfurt school
yeah, nah
Schopenhauer. Just Search Schopenhauer and music.
>>2419778
'Schopenhauer and music' or 'Schopenhauer' and 'music'
>>2419673
Adorno was a Jew.