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is mathematics (the eternal antidote to heraclitean flux) made audible, and then as harmonious psyche is 'writ large' in the harmonious polis, then larger (or largest) in the harmony of the spheres, the kosmos.

for Plato 'harmony' is mathematics (the eternal antidote to Heraclitean flux) made audible, and then as harmonious psyche is 'writ large' in the harmonious polis, then larger (or largest) in the harmony of the spheres, the kosmos. So there is nothing 'accidental' in the Republic, which views life (including political life) as a set of ever-expanding concentric harmonious spheres, 'realizing' changeless mathematical eternity, as one moves from the psyche to the polis to the kosmos.'

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is only the sauce to the red meat of melody.

melody was 'the core of music' to which 'harmony is related as the sauce is to red meat' (Schopenhauer WWRI, 276).

is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections. Dogen

is superficial polish or temporary balance. It presents something as actually reconciled which is not. Dissonance is in fact the truth about harmony.

Aesthetic harmony is never fully attained... it is either superficial polish or temporary balance. Inside everything that can justly be called harmonious in art there are vestiges of despair and antagonism . . . the antiharmonistic postures of Michelangelo, of the mature Rembrandt and Beethoven are all attributable to the inner development of the concept of harmony and in the last analysis to its insufficiency. They have nothing to do with the subjective pain and suffering experienced by these artist/ [emphasis mine]. Dissonance is the truth about harmony . . . Harmony presents something as actually reconciled which is not. In so doing it violates the postulate of appearing essence which the ideal of harmony aims at. The historical emancipation from harmony as an ideal has been an important aspect of the development of art's truth content. (T. Adorno 1984 160-1)

is the opposing of tensions, the result of the necessary struggle which is life.

In Heraclites harmonia is closely connected with the notion kosmos understood in the sense of world order and mundial structure. Things are connected via oppositions ('a back-stretched connection, as in the bow and the lyre', fr. 51 DK). This produces Harmony, Beauty and Life. There is no Life without Struggle, according to Heraclites

 accounts for the secret of success, that is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

is achieved in a picture out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

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