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Phronesis in Musical Performance
Author(s) -
O'DEA JANE
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.1993.tb00658.x
Subject(s) - judgement , phronesis , excellence , musical , field (mathematics) , pleasure , practical wisdom , epistemology , psychology , music and emotion , aesthetics , character (mathematics) , music psychology , music education , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , sociology , pedagogy , philosophy , music history , literature , art , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics
This paper suggests a much more serious purpose for an education in music‐making than play or pleasure or even the training of professional musicians. It presents and explicates a possible connection between musical performance training and the development of practical wisdom. Music in performance constitutes in effect a form of virtuous conduct, where one learns through doing and thereafter comes to love and to be capable of wise practical judgement. Excellence in this field requires the exercise of a species of reasoning and judgement analogous to Aristotelian practical wisdom, and develops the distinctive qualities of character and vision of the practically wise person.