Music has been a subject of philosophical reflection throughout the entire history of European thought. And all the ways in which its place in the cosmos has been interpreted reflect its profound significance for the human being — the imprint it leaves upon them. With the dawning of modernity, the musical begins to acquire increasingly diverse and detailed contours, and the historical development of music goes hand in hand with reflection upon it. The gradual loss of the self-evidence of the old metaphysics is accompanied by a barely perceptible fading of the self-evidence of music itself. Music turns from a given into a problem — or into a solution. The loss of musical self-evidence and the subsequent search for the possibilities of recovering it are the conditions under which modern musical philosophy arises. Musical philosophy and the humanities represent an attempt to comprehend the contemporary condition of music and the musical human being.