Unity in Music and Religion: A Pansemiotic Inquiry
Abstrak
The concept of unity, central to philosophy, religion and music, requires ontological differentiation for it to become meaningful. Influenced by the dialogue ‘Parmenides’ by Plato and the philosophies of Cusanus, Kant and Fichte, the Norwegian philosopher E. A. Wyller developed a branch of philosophy called ‘henology’, a dialectic philosophy of the universe logically leading to a religious stance; in the case of Wyller, Christianity. However, the henological perspective is also central to a considerably more recent religion, the Bahá’à religion, in which unity is the core concept. This paper demonstrates how the henological differentiation of the concept of unity has parallels in music. In a pansemiotic context, these parallels may point to a world with a hologrammatic structure, in which the macrocosmos mirrors itself infinitely in the microcosmos of the material world.
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Lasse Thoresen
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2022
- Bahasa
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- Sumber Database
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- DOI
- 10.23865/noasp.177.ch6
- Akses
- Open Access ✓