Music and Paradise: an approach to the status of music in the thought of Gastón Soublette

Abstract

The specific objective of our work is to illuminate the place of music in the thought of Gastón Soublette, investigating its relationship with the fundamental themes and problems that this author presents and investigates. The work is organized in two sections. The first is dedicated to the myth of Paradise according to its centrality in Soublette's work. In the second section, the perspective of this author regarding music is examined, in correspondence with the core elements of the mentioned myth. The conclusion aims to explain the participation that Soublette grants to music in the “Knowledge for Salvation” described at the beginning of the anthropological-philosophical current, presented as a spiritual itinerary whose purpose is to restore the unity between man and world.