Inner music
Subtitle: Hobbes, Hooke, and North on internal character
By: Jamie C. Kassler.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Madison; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Ethics; Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 -- Ethics; North, Roger, 1653-1734 -- Ethics; Ethics -- England -- History -- 17th century; Ethics -- England -- History -- 18th century; Character; Music -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: Musical instruments, as resonating systems, have been used as models for understanding human character from the seventeenth century onward. The author explores the implications of this model - how, for example, someone's character, conceived instrumentally, 'plays' and 'is played upon', as well as the kinds of 'music' it 'plays'.

This concept has contributed significantly to the development of theory in biomedical, neuro-, and cognitive sciences, and this account provides an important chapter in the history of the philosophy of science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index.