Diversities In Iranian Philosophical And Theosophical Views Toward Music And Its Impact On Iranian Youngsters

چکیده مقاله

Iranian philosophers usually avoid engaging the issues related to what music really does when perceived by man and how it can improve the life of man on Earth. At the same time, Sufists and mystics manly focus on the later issue. Based on theosophical view, music has something in connecting the God and his creator. To investigate the place of philosophical and theosophical way of looking at music among the contemporary Iranian youngsters a filed study conducted for this project. The examination of way of thinking of young Iranian musicians on mystical and philosophical ideas regarding music showed that they have different believes on different issues and there is no way of generalizing the fact that if they believe on old philosophical and theosophical facts as a general rule. For instance, while majority of them do not believe that they ‘act as an instrument in the hand of God’, a considerable percentage of them believe ‘God can communicate with human through music’. The study also revealed that there is a diverse ideology on every single philosophical or theosophical issue among the youngsters. In other words, the society is very colourful in ideas and believes.
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