This rational harmony must be based on the correct treatment of all humans as equals, which in turn is founded on the correct understanding of the individual as a self-determining agent (PE 208).
Thus, in many ways, the philosopher's task is to promote understanding and rational harmony in society by allowing individuals to come to their own recognition of the rationality which is inherent in themselves and their society (PE 327/8).
Caliban, writes Van Doren, "has no capacity for abstraction, and consequently for the rational harmonies of music and love".
In St. Basil the western academic architectural concepts, based on rational, manifest harmony, were ignored; the structure, with no easily readable design and a profusion of disparate colourful exterior decoration, is uniquely medieval Russian in content and form, in technique, decoration, and feeling.
Analogously, the interaction of soul and body gives rise to non-rational movement or passion, while the interaction between intellect and soul brings about rational movement, harmony and virtue (De sera 566A D, 591D F; see Dillon 1977, 194).
In the very title of Hutcheson's work above, we see the importance of the classical ideas of (rational) order and harmony in Hutcheson's aesthetic theory, even as he sets the tenor for much Enlightenment discussion of aesthetics through placing the emphasis on the subjective idea and aesthetic response.
In Cohen's view, reason requires that nature be conceived of as conforming to a single rational plan and that there be harmony between the domains of natural and moral teleology (ultimate purposes or ends).
Even so, Branagh's final image - to be filled in by computer graphics - will hark back to the rational 18th century, when music symbolised harmony and promised to restore paradise.
Further, it is not easy to get one's emotions in harmony with one's rational recognition of certain reasons for action.
"A world in chaos surrealized within the backdrop of the most perfect serene harmony that seems to undermine all rational understanding and purpose".
And it is suggested that order and harmony is established in the soul when the rational aspect rules over the non-rational, yet the non-rational aspect is always capable of revolting against rationality and creating disorder and badness.
