Filosofinių nuostatų ir religinės muzikos patirties konfliktas Šv. Augustino ,,Išpažinimuose“
Reconciling St. Augustine’s Philosophical Approach and His Experience of Religious Music in “Confessions”

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the inconsistencies between St. Augustine’s rational reflection on music, as inherited from the Platonic tradition, and his authentic experience of chanting, as described in the Confessions. Drawing on the theories of A. Dihle, the analysis attempts to show that while Augustine presents an ontological perspective on music and develops it in his theoretical treatises, in his practical considerations he does not try to fit the religious experience into an ontological frame of thinking, but uses another, psychological way of speaking. The article discusses, first, the assumptions found in the Platonic tradition of music and its influence on Augustinian reflections, second, Augustine’s ambivalence and interpretations of this ambivalence by contemporary researchers, and third, the limits of the Platonic conception and the importance of emotions for religious experience.

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