ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the question of time in soul and music from three different but intersecting perspectives. The first perspective is from that of the ancient Greek philosopher, and the second perspective is from that of the most musically oriented of all European philosophers. The thirds perspective is from that of the contemporary philosopher and musicologist. For Plato, because music affects sensibility, it molds character. There is no philosopher from Plato's day to the current who has understood the power of music better than Arthur Schopenhauer. The new age, according to Schopenhauer's continuation of Kant's philosophy, is marked by a shift from logos to melos, just as Christianity marked a shift from mythos to logos. Jürgen Lawrenz equates the changes in music in the late eighteenth century in regard to aesthetics with the changes in philosophy (associated with Kant) in regard to epistemology (the theory of knowledge).
