A Study on Instrumental Role of Music in Attributing Moral Virtues to the Soul

According to the moral and educational ancient history of music, its influence on human morality is inevitable. Receiving the music, the viewpoint of non religious morality has taken its advantage as an instrument for training the soul and acquiring good human characteristics. However, it should be mentioned that in this viewpoint there is no place for immoderate music and the music opposed-to-human and moral characteristics and only that kind of music is considered which is in line with moderation and moral values regarding its form and content. Although the relation between music and ghina is logically general and pure particular, in Islamic moral viewpoint, the serious sensitivities which have been existed about ghina, have also stained the domain of valid music. This paper aims at analyzing the quality of influence of music on human sensual mood as well as elucidating the instrumental position of music in acquiring human moral features in morality knowledge.