Saturday, October 22, 2016

Polity and Orchestra

There are three main contributors to the production of a typical piece of what is usually termed 'Classical Music'--the composer, the conductor, and the orchestra.  There are others--the instrument-makers, the managers of the venue, etc.--but those three are the central ones.  Correspondingly, there are three main contributors to a polity--a theorist, e. g. a policy-formulator, a ruler, and the citizenry.  Now, the dysfunctions of each of those three are familiar factors in the development of a Political Philosophy--too abstract theorizing, self-serving ruler, oppressed citizenry, etc.  However, analogous problems seem peculiar, at best, in the context of the production of a piece of music, e. g. that the orchestra is oppressed because they are being told what to do, and even how to do it.  So, the dysfunctions that usually constitute the primary instigation to the development of a Political Philosophy are contingent ones, as are, therefore, their solutions.

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