[...] they involuntarily, through
their ignorance, asserted falsely that music did not possess any
correctness whatever; but that it might be judged of most
correctly by the pleasure of the party gratified, whether he
were a better person or a worse.
Plato, The Laws, bk. 3, ch. 15.
(Plato, The Works of Plato: A New and Literal Version, trans. George Burges, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852, vol. 5, The Laws, p. 117.)
(Plato, The Works of Plato: A New and Literal Version, trans. George Burges, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852, vol. 5, The Laws, p. 117.)
without intending it, they
were guilty of so far slandering their art as to assert, in their
folly, that there was no such thing as right or wrong in music:
the one proper criterion was the pleasure of the hearer, be he
gentle or simple.
Plato, The Laws, bk. 3.
(Plato, The Laws of Plato, ed. w. intro., notes, etc. by E. B. England, Manchester: The University Press; London, New York, Bombay, etc.: Longmans, Green & Co., 1921, vol. 1, bks. 1-6, pp. 114, 409.)
(Plato, The Laws of Plato, ed. w. intro., notes, etc. by E. B. England, Manchester: The University Press; London, New York, Bombay, etc.: Longmans, Green & Co., 1921, vol. 1, bks. 1-6, pp. 114, 409.)
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