Aquinas On Beauty

Author : Christopher Scott Sevier
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739184257

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Aquinas on Beauty by Christopher Scott Sevier Pdf

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 : Brendon Thomas Sammon
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227902219

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The God Who Is Beauty by Brendon Thomas Sammon Pdf

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 : Christopher Scott Sevier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Aesthetics, Medieval
ISBN : OCLC:841165158

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Thomas Aquinas on the Nature and Experience of Beauty by Christopher Scott Sevier Pdf

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674006763

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The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas by Umberto Eco Pdf

The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. Inheriting his basic ideas and conceptions of art and beauty from the classical world, Aquinas transformed or modified these ideas in the light of Christian theology and of developments in metaphysics and optics during the thirteenth century. Setting the stage with an account of the vivid aesthetic and artistic sensibility that flourished in medieval times, Eco examines Aquinas's conception of transcendental beauty, his theory of aesthetic perception or visio, and his account of the three conditions of beauty--integrity, proportion, and clarity--that, centuries later, emerged again in the writings of the young James Joyce. He examines the concrete application of these theories in Aquinas's reflections on God, mankind, music, poetry, and scripture. He discusses Aquinas's views on art and compares his poetics with Dante's. In a final chapter added to the second Italian edition, Eco examines how Aquinas's aesthetics came to be absorbed and superseded in late medieval times and draws instructive parallels between Thomistic methodology and contemporary structuralism. As the only book-length treatment of Aquinas's aesthetics available in English, this volume should interest philosophers, medievalists, historians, critics, and anyone involved in poetics, aesthetics, or the history of ideas.

Author : Alice M. Ramos
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813233536

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Beauty and the Good by Alice M. Ramos Pdf

In the past twenty years or more, there has been a growing interest among philosophers and theologians alike in the transcendentals and especially in the beautiful. This seems fortuitous since so much of contemporary culture is fixated in many ways on beauty, on what might be called a superficial or man-made beauty, intent on outward appearance, with little or no concern for the human person’s interiority and distinctive nature. The Ancients and the Medievals, on the contrary, were sensitive not only to the beauty of nature and art but also to beauty as intelligible, that is, to the beauty of moral harmony and of metaphysical splendor. While the question of whether the beautiful is in fact a transcendental aspect of being continues to be a subject of dispute in contemporary scholarship, the relationship between the beautiful and the good has been accepted since ancient times and has been attended to in recent publications. None of these publications, however, offers a systematic treatment of this relationship by drawing from the wisdom of both ancient and medieval thought in such a way as to bring together the work of scholars in this tradition. Beauty and the Good intends therefore to make a singular contribution by presenting a richer alternative to the contemporary cult of beauty and appearance on the one hand, and to the concomitant decline of real beauty on the other hand. In addition to highlighting the centrality of beauty in the Aristotelian account of moral virtue, where virtue is kalon and virtuous actions are done for the sake of kalon—an account which is found echoed in the medieval notion of intrinsic goodness (bonum honestum), understood as intelligible or spiritual beauty—this volume will provide the metaphysical and theological grounding for beauty, as influenced in part by Plato and Neoplatonism, together with a much needed account of how we know and judge beauty, and how for the recognition of true good and real beauty we need to be properly disposed. The integration of philosophical and theological reflection on the nature and relationship of beauty and the good, on our perception and judgment of beauty and of the good as beautiful, and on the motivational role of beauty in human action has as its goal to produce a coherent volume of essays.

Author : Armand Augustine Maurer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015008571898

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About Beauty by Armand Augustine Maurer Pdf

"Originally lectures given at the Center for Thomistic Studies"--Introd. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0091823595

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The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas by Umberto Eco Pdf

Author : John Leonard Callahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCAL:B3922582

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A Theory of Esthetic According to the Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas ... by Leonard Callahan ... by John Leonard Callahan Pdf

Author : James Keating
Publisher : American Maritain Association
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997220538

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Restoring Ancient Beauty by James Keating Pdf

Until recently it has been commonplace to believe that Vatican II represents a permanent sidelining of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas for theology. The documents of that council, it is said, moved away from the scholastic categories that had informed Catholic theological work since the Reformation, and most particularly since Vatican I. There is some truth to this, of course, since the council fathers preferred biblical formulations in a personalist and pastoral mode over the kinds of concepts one finds in Neo-Thomism. The effect of this shift on theological education is well known. Indeed, so swift was the change that one finds figures as different as Jacques Maritain, Karl Rahner, and Joseph Ratzinger worrying soon after the Council's conclusion that the Angelic Doctor had all but disappeared from Catholic theology. Each in his own way sought to call the Church's intellectuals back to a consideration of Aquinas to address not simply philosophical issues but those dealing with the central doctrinal mysteries of the faith. It is now clear that after decades of experimentation with various philosophical systems, a number of scholars have either found a new audience for their work or have recently discovered for themselves the ancient beauty of Aquinas' theological work. The present volume brings together a number of prominent scholars to explore the different ways in which the writings of Thomas Aquinas on Christ, grace, faith, and other properly theological themes retain their relevance, and indeed, constitute a firmer basis upon which to explore these mysteries than many recent streams of thought. Contributors include: Thomas Weinandy, OFM, Cap., David C. Schindler, Michael Torre, Jessica Murdoch, Francis Feingold, Thomas Rourke, Marie George, James Hanink, John F.X. Knasas, Heather Erb, Joshua Schultz, Anton Schaube, William Hamant, Joel Johnson, Philip Berns, Daniel Drain, Fred Boley, Justin Matchulat, and Michael Humphreys.

Author : Alice Ramos
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813219653

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Dynamic Transcendentals by Alice Ramos Pdf

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 : Francis J. Kovach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0806113634

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Philosophy of Beauty by Francis J. Kovach Pdf

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 : Jan Aertsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004451421

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Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals by Jan Aertsen Pdf

Students of Thomas Aquinas have so far lacked a comprehensive study of his doctrine of the transcendentals. This volume fills this lacuna, showing the fundamental character of the notions of being, one, true and good for his thought. The book inquires into the beginnings of the doctrine in the thirteenth century and explains the relation of the transcendental way of thought to Aquinas's conception of metaphysics. It analyzes "Being," "One," "True," "Good" and "Beautiful" individually and discusses their importance for the philosophical knowledge of God. Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas is intended as a contribution to the question "What is philosophy in the Middle Ages?". It argues that the doctrine of the transcendentals is essential for understanding medieval philosophy.

Author : Raïssa Maritain
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933184470

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Saint Thomas Aquinas by Raïssa Maritain Pdf

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
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300188554

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Thomas Aquinas by Denys Turner Pdf

DIVA concise and illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas, the man and the saint/div

Author : Brendon Thomas Sammon
Publisher : James Clarke Company
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0227174291

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The God who is Beauty by Brendon Thomas Sammon Pdf

"When, in the sixth century, Dionysius the Areopagite declared Beauty to be a name for God, he gave birth to something that had long been gestating in the womb of philosophical and theological thought. In doing so, Dionysius made one of his most pivotal contributions to Christian theological discourse. This contribution was enthusiastically received by the schoolmen of the Middle Ages, and it came to permeate the thought of scholasticism in a multitude of ways. But nowhere is the Dionysian influence more pronounced than in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. The God Who is Beauty examines the historical development of beauty's appropriation as a name for God in Dionysius and Aquinas, and what it means. The argument that emerges from this study is that the phenomenon of Beauty as a divine name indicates the way in which beauty is conceived in the Christian theological tradition as a theological theme. The concept of beauty proved itself to be enigmatic and elusive to even the sharpest intellects in the Greek philosophical tradition. When it is absorbed within the Christian theological synthesis, however, its enigmatic content proves to be a powerful resource for theological reasoning."--Publisher's description.