Музикологията като философска дисциплина
Musicology as a Philosophical Discipline

Summary/Abstract: The study brings up for consideration the issue of the content-related scope of musicology and hence, of its definability as philosophical knowledge. Traditionally, that would mean either to confirm or to deny the place of musicology among the disciplines referred to as philosophical judging by whether or not it complies with the general principle of defining these disciplines as such. The classifications of knowledge of Antiquity or of the Middle Ages give a historical example of this kind of logic, where the discipline of music is legitimized as philosophical one by the numerical principle, uniting the mathematical disciplines as part of theoretical philosophy. This study advances the thesis that presently, such a move is far from sufficient. A change is needed in the very way of posing the problem. The role of music in its own essence in mapping out new philosophical horizons is put forward and argued to replace the existing criteria or arguments of classing musicology as philosophical knowledge.

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