L'estetica della musica popolare È opinione diffusa che la musica popolare sia di tipo diverso dalla musica seria o dalla musica colta, fino a poco tempo fa, monopolizzò l’attenzione nelle discussioni filosofiche sulla musica. Negli ultimi anni, Tuttavia, la musica popolare è diventata un argomento importante per i filosofi che perseguono uno dei due progetti. Primo, la musica popolare riceve l'attenzione dei filosofi che la vedono come un banco di prova

Aristotele: Motion Aristotle’s account of motion and its place in nature can be found in the Physics. By motion, Aristotele (384-322 a.E.V.) understands any kind of change. He defines motion as the actuality of a potentiality. Inizialmente, Aristotle’s definition seems to involve a contradiction. Tuttavia, commentators on the works of Aristotle, such as St. Tommaso d'Aquino, maintain that this is the only way to define motion. In order

Aristotele: Ethics Standard interpretations of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics usually maintain that Aristotle (384-322 a.E.V.) emphasizes the role of habit in conduct. It is commonly thought that virtues, according to Aristotle, are habits and that the good life is a life of mindless routine. These interpretations of Aristotle’s ethics are the result of imprecise translations from the ancient Greek text. Aristotle uses the word hexis to denote moral virtue.

Renato Cartesio: The Mind-Body Distinction One of the deepest and most lasting legacies of Descartes’ philosophy is his thesis that mind and body are really distinct—a thesis now called “mind-body dualism.” He reaches this conclusion by arguing that the nature of the mind (questo è, a thinking, non-extended thing) is completely different from that of the body (questo è, an extended, non-thinking thing), and therefore it

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) The American author Henry David Thoreau is best known for his magnum opus Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854); second to this in popularity is his essay, “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849), which was later republished posthumously as “Civil Disobedience” (1866). His fame largely rests on his role as a literary figure exploring the wilds of the natural world, non