“我们是不是应该热爱音乐?”这个问题很像我儿子经常问我的那句话,“爸,我是不是应该去睡觉了?”因为他已经不能像他还很小的时候那样可以按本能去生活,饿了就吃,困了就睡。他已是个地道的文明人,也已开始了一段漫长的依赖时刻表以及各种指南而生活的时代,尽管将来他有可能会活得很长命,以至难免会再次回到由本能所驱使的时代。再多读几遍这个问题,才发现,原来引起我的联想的真正祸因来自“应该”这个词。这个词在一瞬间把人们对音乐的爱与不爱放到了规范领域来进行讨论,其结果当然也可想而知地会是像诸如“你不应该杀人”、“你不应该偷窃”、“你不应该撒谎”等那些规教式的话语。这倒使得本来已够麻烦的人类又多了一项可供争论的话题。但关于“我们是不是应该热爱音乐?”这方面的规范,多少与有关杀人、偷盗这些道德说教的规范不同,不是基于《圣经》或上帝或一些不证自明的所谓人的本性,而会是一些与幸福这个概念有关的无是无非的论断。这个问题阴险地诱惑人们从一种功能主义的角度来试图回答,其过程无非会是诸如音乐会给我们带来好处吗?如果会,那是什么样的好处?愉 “This question is very much like my son often asked me,” “Dad, should I go to bed?” “Because he can not be like him when he was still young So you can live instinctively, hungry to eat, sleepy sleep. He has become an authentic civilized man and has begun a long period of relying on timetables and various guides, though in the future he may live a long life that will inevitably return to instinctual instinct era. After reading this question several times, I realized that the real calamity that caused my association came from the word ”should“. The word in a moment to people’s love and dislike of music into the norms of the field to be discussed, the result can of course be imagined will be like ”You should not kill “, ”You should not steal “, ” You should not lie “and other such regulatory discourse. This reverses the already troubling issue of humanity with more controversy. But what about ”nor should we love music?“ ”The norms in this respect are not based on norms of homicide and theft of these moral precepts, not on the nature of the Bible or God or some self-evident self-assertion, It will be some nonsense about the concept of happiness. This question sinisterly tempts people to try to answer from a functional point of view, the process is nothing more than the benefits such as concerts give us? If so, what are the benefits?