著者

源河 亨

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.68, no.2, 2017

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Peter Kivy claims, from his early works, that music cannot arouse "garden-varietyemotion" such as joy, anger, fear, sadness. According to him, the emotion aroused bymusic is a special "musical emotion"; the object of this emotion is always music. Thisclaim seems to be counterintuitive and thus elicits many objections from philosophers,musicologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and artists. However, I will argue thatKivy's position is most plausible given the philosophy of emotion. Especially, I will showthat there is no emotion deserving to be called "sadness" that is aroused by music. Byappealing to philosophical considerations on emotion, I will support the following twopoints that Kivy emphasizes. The first is the lack of an object. There are no sad things(no loss) while we listen to music. If sadness does not occur, the lack of an objectmakes no matter. The second point is the paradox of negative emotion. Sadness has anegative value and we prefer to avoid it. If we can accept this, why then, are we willingto listen to music that make us sad? Again, if sadness does not occur, there arises noparadox.