Research On Plato’s Thought Of Music Education

Plato is a giant of ancient Greek culture,whose thought has a profound influence on the whole west.He not only explored many fields,such as philosophy,pedagogy,politics,poetics,literature and art,ethics,but also made great contributions in these fields.This paper mainly discusses Plato’s music education thought.Although Plato is not a musician,in his many works there is no special discussion on music education,but in his works,almost all the problems of music education are involved,which is worthy of further study.This paper mainly explores Plato’s music education thoughts based on music education in the Republic and the law.This paper mainly uses the methods of literature research and comparative research to systematically study and sort out the background,origin,system and other aspects of Plato’s music education thought,and on this basis,tries to analyze the problems of today’s music education,so as to seek a spiritual blood for the current poor music education.The structure of this paper consists of six parts.The first part is the introduction,which mainly includes the origin,significance,literature review,research content,key difficulties and methods.The first chapter gives a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the background of Plato’s music education thought.The emergence and development of Plato’s music education thought are closely related to his growth experience and the social situation of ancient Greece.The political life and cultural life of ancient Greece were inseparable from the participation of music.The idea of "learning music for all" made it possible for the development of music education in ancient Greece.The second chapter briefly analyzes the origin of Plato’s music education thought.Plato’s educational thought inherits the Pythagorean School,especially the theory of music education.Like Pythagoras,he thinks that all things correspond to numbers and have a certain proportion.Influenced by the ancient Greek times,Plato’s music education content is inseparable from the epic.Plato believes that words are stories,and the content of the story involves Greek mythology,tragedy and comedy,so its origin is inseparable from Homer’s epic and tragicomedy.The third chapter analyzes the system of Plato’s music education thought.This chapter studies the connotation,purpose,content and implementation of Plato’s music education,and discusses the relationship and logic between these contents.Music has the noble value of purifying people’s mind.It can shape a perfect and harmonious personality and give people a calm mind.Music has the noble value of purifying people’s soul and making people pursue the beauty and goodness of the soul.The Greek educational spirit is to cultivate people who pursue excellence and integrity and who develop harmoniously in body and mind.The fourth chapter evaluates Plato’s music education thought.Plato attached great importance to music education.He thought that there were only two kinds of education in the city-state: Music Education and physical education.Music education was not only about individuals,but also about the fate of the country,demonstrating the possibility of music education for the development of citizens.Secondly,Plato’s music education showed us people’s love and pursuit of beauty.Thirdly,Plato’s music education was inseparable from citizens’ life,which could make people’s mind intelligent At last,Plato’s music education is possible to educate people’s virtue,beauty and goodness.After all,Plato’s music education thought is the product of the specific situation in ancient Greece,which has certain limitations for different times.We should look at it from many aspects and angles.The fifth chapter analyzes the Enlightenment of Plato’s music education thought.Today’s era is far more than any era in history.With the development of modern education,we should constantly draw on the wisdom of the sages,trace back to the classics,study the classics,and examine the modern with the eyes of the classics,so as to find a way out for the excellence and perfection of the present personality.Plato’s music education thought has given us great enlightenment in strengthening the modern education idea of music education,making aesthetic education pay attention to the spiritual foundation,involving a better life and paying attention to the moral penetration of music education.