Popular Song as Moral Microcosm: Life Lessons from Jazz Standards

In a recent paper devoted to my topic, music and morality, my fellow philosopher of music Peter Kivy makes a helpful tripartite distinction among ways in which music could be said to have moral force. The first is by embodying and conveying moral insight; Kivy labels that epistemic moral force. The...

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Veröffentlicht in:Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement 2012-10, Vol.71, p.51-66
1. Verfasser: Levinson, Jerrold
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In a recent paper devoted to my topic, music and morality, my fellow philosopher of music Peter Kivy makes a helpful tripartite distinction among ways in which music could be said to have moral force. The first is by embodying and conveying moral insight; Kivy labels that epistemic moral force. The second is by having a positive moral effect on behavior; Kivy labels that behavioral moral force. And the third is by impacting positively on character so as to make someone a better human being; Kivy labels that character-building moral force.
ISSN:1358-2461
1755-3555
DOI:10.1017/S1358246112000264