Philosophical Thoughts with Artistic Values
Shveata Misra, Prof. Ina Shastri

Abstract
Philosophy and music differ principally according to their subject-matter and also the means by which they reflect, transform and express it. In a certain sense, music and philosophy, reflects reality in its relation to man, and depicts man, his spiritual world, and the relations between individuals in their interaction with the world. We live not in a primeval pure world, but in a world where everything has, been given a "human angle", a world permeated with our attitudes towards it, our needs, ideas, aims, ideals, joys and sufferings, a world that is part of the vortex of our existence. The whole infinite range of our relationships to the world stems from the sum-total of our interactions with it. We are able to consider our environment rationally through the gigantic historical prism of science, philosophy and music, which are capable of expressing life as a tempestuous flood of contradictions that come into being, develop, are resolved and negated in order to generate new contradictions.Philosophy of music is the study of fundamental questions about the nature of music and our experience of it. Unlike philosophy of science, say, the philosophy of an artistic practice, such as music, is one that most people have a significant background in, merely as a result of being members of a musical culture. Music plays a central role in many people's lives. Thus, as with the central questions of metaphysics and epistemology, not only can most people quickly grasp the philosophical questions music raises, they tend to have thought about some of those questions before encountering the academic discipline itself. In my paper I’ll be discussing on philosophy and art, their correlation and importance.

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