Critique of Practical Music - Music and Moral Development

This book offers a systematic survey of ethos theory: the theory according to which the right sort of music can have a positive or negative effect on moral development. It also evaluates the extant empirical literature on music and moral development.

List of contents

1. Origins of the Ethos Theory 2. Modern Philosophical Views on the Ethos Theory 3. Theory into Practice 4. The Empirical Evidence

About the author

James O. Young, FRSC, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author of several books including Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (2008), Critique of Pure Music (2014), A History of Western Philosophy of Music (2023) and more than eighty articles in refereed journals.

Product details

• Authors: James O. (University of Victoria Young, Young James O.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9781041059509
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4105950-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Research in Aesthetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Music, The arts: general issues, MUSIC / History & Criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, History of art / art & design styles, Ethics & moral philosophy, History of Art, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Cognition and cognitive psychology, The arts: general topics