Peter Hübner • Music & Brain – Musical Perspective
The Philosophy of Music
The philosophy of music has its basis in the music lover – in his personal love for music. Since music is able to describe the subjective and the objective reality, it is able to express truth.
Therefore, it is actually man’s love of truth that makes music so attractive to him, because the language of music, and with it the musical description of truth through the musical artist – but also the musical gaining knowledge by the listener – is much more complete than any other consideration of reality in common human language, not to speak of actually gaining knowledge through our colloquial language.
Because of the power of its expression the musical description of the reality of our life appeals to our feeling much more than common speech, and moreover, because of the complexity of its flow of information, the language of music is able to satisfy the understanding in its search for truth much more profoundly than the spoken word.
Moreover, the process of abstraction of any mental-spiritual impressions, as well as the process of making them concrete, can be mastered systematically and completely through the means of music.
Therefore, a great art of gaining inner and outer knowledge lies hidden in music.