The Psychological Solution-1
We cannot afford to have a nation of malingerers and invalids; Utopia must begin in the body of man.
But mere athletics and gymnastics would make a man too one-sided.
"How shall we find a gentle nature which has also great courage?—for they seem to be inconsistent with each other".
We do not want a nation of prize-fighters and weight-lifters.
Perhaps music will solve our problem: throughmusic the soul learns harmony and rhythm, and even a disposition to justice; for "can he who is harmoniously constituted ever be unjust? Is not this, Glaucon, why musical training is so powerful, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul, bearing grace in their movements and making the soul graceful?".
Music moulds character, and therefore shares in determining social and political issues.
"Damon tells me—and I can quite believe it—that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state change with them."
Music is valuable not only because it brings refinement of feeling and character, but also because it preserves and restores health.
There are some diseases which can be treated only through the mind: so the Corybantic priest treated hysterical women with wild pipe music, which excited them to dance and dance till they fell to the ground exhausted, and went to sleep; when they awoke they were cured.
The unconscious sources of human thought are touched and soothed by such methods; and it is in these substrata of behavior and feeling that genius sinks its roots.
"No man when conscious attains to true or inspired intuition, but rather when the power of intellect is fettered in sleep or by disease or dementia"; the prophet (mantike) or genius is akin to the madman (manike).
[ 00’33” ] malingerer (装病的人)
[ 00’39” ] invalid (久病的人)
[ 01’58” ] one-sided (片面的)
[ 04’16” ] Music moulds character. (音乐塑造性格)
[ 07’04” ] refinement (提纯)
[ 07’28” ] corybantic (狂乐乱舞的)
[ 08’44” ] soothe (安慰；使平静)
[ 09’02” ] substrata (底层当中的底层土；现引申为底层，下层。)
[ 09’34” ] intuition (本性)
[ 09’47” ] fetter (束缚)
[ 10’08” ] mantike (genius，天才)
[ 10’09” ] manike (madman，疯子)
