Aquinas On Beauty
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Author | : Christopher Scott Sevier |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739184253 |
Aquinas on Beauty explores the nature and role of beauty in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with a standard definition of beauty provided by Aquinas, it explores each of the components of that definition. The result is a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s formal view on the subject, supplemented by an exploration into Aquinas’s commentary on Dionysius’s Divine Names, including a comparison of his views with those of both Dionysius and those of Aquinas’s mentor, Albert the Great. The book also highlights the tight connection in Aquinas’s thought between aesthetics and ethics, and illustrates how Aquinas preserves what is best about aesthetic traditions preceding him, and anticipates what is best about aesthetic traditions that would follow, marrying objective and subjective aesthetic intuitions and charting a kind of via media between the common extremes.
Author | : Christopher Scott Sevier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, Medieval |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brendon Thomas Sammon |
Publisher | : James Clarke & Company |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0227902211 |
In the beginning was beauty, and beauty was with God, and beauty was God. If the tradition of divine names, that (in its Christian form) originates with Dionysius the Areopagite and includes among its ranks Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and others, is correct in identifying God with the name beauty, then repurposing the Prologue to John's Gospel in this way seems hardly controversial. For if beauty is a divine name then not only is it fitting to say God is beautiful, but it is equally fitting to say that God is beauty itself. However, like most arguments from fittingness-that is to say, arguments whose veracity derives from the congruency, proportion, or harmony between the various elements of a proposition or idea rather than from some categoricallyhigher, or univocally determinate, logical necessity-the simplicity of its utterance stands in stark contrast to the complexity of its intelligible content. It is the aim of the present work is to explore what it means to say that beauty is a divine name.
Author | : John-Mark L. Miravalle |
Publisher | : Sophia Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2019-04-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1622827139 |
We are meant for beauty, and beauty is meant for us What we moderns have forgotten, the ancients knew well: true beauty heals the soul, draws us to God, and yields lasting happiness. Rich with the wisdom of Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, and St. John Paul II, these pages unpack perennial truths about beauty and rivet them into your soul, opening the eyes of your understanding to the beauty all around us. Offering an abundance of accessible examples, author John Mark Miravalle demonstrates that beauty is neither in the eye of the beholder, nor for the cultivated, the dreamer, or the “hopeless romantic” alone. On the contrary, the ability to understand, recognize, and delight in beauty readies all souls for heaven—and makes it easier for us to get there. From these pages, you’ll learn: • Why beauty is not just a matter of opinion • The virtues we need to perceive beauty and to enjoy it • How to determine whether an artwork is truly beautiful • The respective roles of reason and emotion in appreciating beauty • How the beauty of nature testifies to God’s existence . . . while rejection of God obscures nature’s beauty With the help of these pages, you’ll receive fresh eyes to marvel again (or for the first time) at the beauty of nature, music, art, architecture, and, most importantly, the beauty of God, the fountainhead and exemplar of all things on earth that are beautiful.
Author | : Alice Ramos |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813219655 |
Addressing contemporary interest in the relationship between metaphysics and ethics, as well as the significance of beauty for ethics, Alice Ramos presents an accessible study of the transcendentals and provides a dynamic rather than static view of truth, goodness, and beauty.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : 9780091823597 |
Author | : Francis J. Kovach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2012-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780806113630 |
There has long been a need for a work on the philosophy of beauty treating fundamental problems against the background of the history of aesthetics--ancient and medieval as well as modern and contemporary. This book answers that need with the comprehensive presentations of an objectivist philosophy of beauty to balance the currently popular aesthetic subjectivism. It includes a synopsis of views and theories expressed on the various questions about beauty by philosophers down through the ages. Kovach's acquaintance with relevant literature from the ancient Greeks to twentieth-century authors is staggering. He draws on the observations of thinkers from ancient times--Plato, Aristotle. Philo of Alexandria, Cicero, Plotinus, Augustine, Dionysius the Areopagite, and others; from medieval times--Alexander of Hales, John of la Rochelle, Thomas of York, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Dionysius the Carthusian, and others; from modern times--Descartes, J. Addison, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoi, Santayana, Croce, Maritain, Sartre, H. Read, Thomas Munro, and others. With delicate precision Kovach systematically discusses the philosophy of beauty and the problems it raises. Whether or not one agrees with Kovach's objectivist position, no one in the field can afford to be without this book.
Author | : Raïssa Maritain |
Publisher | : Sophia Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1933184477 |
Age Range: 4 and up. Initially written for children, but a delight for grownups as well, these pages show the beauty and holiness that belonged especially to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Author | : Denys Turner |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300188552 |
DIVA concise and illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas, the man and the saint/div
Author | : Roger Scruton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199229759 |
In a book that is itself beautifully written, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful.--From publisher description.