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Music and Philosophy

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Which philosopher argued that music is a form of mimesis, or imitation, of the natural world?

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Plato
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Plato believed that music, along with the other arts, is a representation or imitation of the Forms, which are the perfect and eternal ideas that exist in the realm of the divine.

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