The Music and the Limits of the World. A Study on Eugenio Trías and Augustine of Hippo

Abstract

This work focuses on the role that music has in the constitution of the World as a philosophical category. I explore the work of Eugenio Trías and Augustine of Hippo, and the way both philosophers have conceptualized music in relation to the constitution of the time of the World. For Trías music is not about the World but about its limits and, in that way, gives it a form. For Augustine music relates man to universe’s ordo, liberating him from mundane distentio animi and helping him to give sense to a World that gives itself as finite.