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https://athenacommons.muw.edu/urc/2021/performances/2/
Department
History, Political Science, & Geography
Format of Presentation
Performance
Research Category
Arts
Description
Plato’s Republic attempts to define justice. He does this by first finding what the Just city looks like and then applies the same model to one’s soul. Dividing both into three parts, the logical, appetitive and the spirited, Plato sees how these parts interact with each other and the harmony between them leading to justice. I attempted to make a representation of these theories using sound. By using the same instrumentation throughout the song, I was able to provide a base to show Plato’s theories. Sound samples of societal leaders are intermixed with consonance or dissonance to make listeners understand the negative aspects of one class taking the role as the “guardians”. Using a single person’s voice, I repeated this process to make listeners understand justice of the soul. I found that the use of consonance and dissonance as well as audio samples did produce the unrest or tension that Plato describes in his theories on Justice.
Recommended Citation
Hartleroad, Max, "An Audible Representation of Plato's Republic" (2021). Undergraduate Research Conference. 2.
https://athenacommons.muw.edu/urc/2021/performances/2
Audio file of performance
PHL__002__jd_comments__1_.docx (12 kB)
An Audible Representation of Plato's Republic
Plato’s Republic attempts to define justice. He does this by first finding what the Just city looks like and then applies the same model to one’s soul. Dividing both into three parts, the logical, appetitive and the spirited, Plato sees how these parts interact with each other and the harmony between them leading to justice. I attempted to make a representation of these theories using sound. By using the same instrumentation throughout the song, I was able to provide a base to show Plato’s theories. Sound samples of societal leaders are intermixed with consonance or dissonance to make listeners understand the negative aspects of one class taking the role as the “guardians”. Using a single person’s voice, I repeated this process to make listeners understand justice of the soul. I found that the use of consonance and dissonance as well as audio samples did produce the unrest or tension that Plato describes in his theories on Justice.
https://athenacommons.muw.edu/urc/2021/performances/2