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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
[Melody] does not only imitate, it speaks, and its language - inarticulate but vigorous, burning and passionate - has a hundred times more energy than speech.
Essay on the Origin of Languages, 14 OC v 416.1Some people think music a primitive art because it has only a few notes and rhythms. But it is simple only on the surface,- its substance on the other hand, which makes it possible to interpret this manifest content, has all the infinite complexity that's suggested in the external forms of other arts and that music conceals. There is a sense in which it is the most sophisticated art of all.
Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, pp. 8-9There are two commonly accepted, seldom scrutinized, claims about Rousseau. The first is that he opposed representation in politics and was an advocate of direct democracy,- the second is that he was opposed to the theater on the grounds that is distanced citizens from moral understanding.
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