In metaphysics there are three transcendentals: the true, the good, and the beautiful. We are dealing here with the beautiful, art, or specifically music.
I wouldn't dare to lead you away by further phenomenology without pointing you to our main goal, who is God, who is Beauty. Our frantic musical world of today because of the fear of loosing musical artists or HM is still bewildering us where it finally will lead. But ultimately we will see God as Beauty himself.
Edith Stein, is as well the first to fully apply Catholic theology in phenomenology. Recall our discussion of her in the first book. Below link is a required reading for artists.
St. Edith Stein’s Answer to a World Starved of Beauty
Pure music then isn't just amoral anymore. It invites us to something that transcends us.
Music with lyrics, video, and context though cannot just be amoral. Lots of songs out there are immoral. Is this why so may of our young who has been influenced by such immoral elements of the beautiful music, can't find any real sense of wonder and awe anymore? A sense of real adventure for their lives without fear that something seems wrong, to fully see the meaning of life, and that art as not something more disintegrative of their already tumultuous period of development, while not yet achieving maturity of conscience or even just their critical mind.
Any artist and their work must realize that the true, the good, and the beautiful cannot be separated from each other. And that an immoral but beautiful music, isn't actually beautiful. Did I already told you how I want to edit some pop songs out there to remove some of its immoral lyrical, graphic, contextual element, to salvage the beauty of its musical composition?
We need to be beautiful, our art needs to be beautiful, even in the midst of suffering. We need not surrender the inspiration we see, hear, since it is the same God who continues to put hope in our hearts.
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, pray for us.
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