MOMRI Director Olivier Urbain publishes article on music in Special Issue of Philosophical Practice dedicated to the Founder of Min-On & MOMRI

November 15, 2024

The article “Music in Daisaku Ikeda’s Philosophy and Practice of Peacebuilding” was published in the November 2024 issue of Philosophical Practice, the journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA). This special issue is dedicated to Daisaku Ikeda, who passed away on November 15, 2023, for his lifelong contributions to the field of applied philosophy.

The article is generously provided by APPA as an offprint and is available in the Hub Library

For more information about APPA, including the special issue, please visit APPA's website.

We look forward to receiving your feedback, insights and comments. Please feel free to reach out to Olivier.

Article Abstract

In this article a tripartite conceptual framework is used to bring together various insights about Daisaku Ikeda’s praxis of peacebuilding through music. Beethoven was a powerful source of inspiration for his Inner Transformation. Art Blakey’s advice to “play from the inside,” explored in a dialogue with jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, can lead to the sharing of inner joy, providing a basic ingredient to enhance Dialogue. Finally, one reason for the establishment of the Min-On Music Research Institute in 2014, was to multiply dialogues, in order to enhance Global Citizenship through collaborative research, practice and education. May these insights serve as an entry point into the vast world of Ikeda’s praxis of peacebuilding through music.