Thomas Aquinas On The Nature And Experience Of Beauty

Author : Christopher Scott Sevier
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Herbert Ellsworth Cory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCAL:$B716667

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The Significance of Beauty in Nature and Art by Herbert Ellsworth Cory Pdf

Author : Armand Augustine Maurer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Kathryn B. Alexander
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451487565

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Saving Beauty by Kathryn B. Alexander Pdf

Kathryn B. Alexander argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation, and this project develops a theological aesthetics of nature and beauty with an aim toward cultivating a theological and ethical framework for redeemed life as participation in ecological community. With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, the volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative, religious, and sacramental experience.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : John Leonard Callahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Christopher Scott Sevier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Bruno Forte
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802832801

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The Portal of Beauty by Bruno Forte Pdf

A famous Italian theologian's eloquent reflections on beauty and God. / "Beauty is an event: it happens when the Whole, the All, offers itself to us in the fragment, when the Infinite makes itself little." This is how Bruno Forte describes the long-held Christian tradition that sees God as the source of all beauty. In The Portal of Beauty Forte examines the deep, though not always obvious, contribution of theological thought from the minds of such luminaries as Augustine, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Balthasar, and Evdokimov to our understanding and experience of beauty. / The Portal of Beauty is an erudite, moving, and deeply-felt study by the most famous Italian theologian in Italy on the nature of beauty and how it can lead us to a greater understanding of and communion with the divine.

Author : Mary Carruthers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199590322

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The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages by Mary Carruthers Pdf

Uses lexical analyses of key terms employed by medieval people to valuate their own aesthetic feelings to show how flux and change, and the creative tension of antithetical physical qualities from which all things were thought to be made (cold, hot, dry, wet), govern the pleasures medieval artists sought to produce.

Author : Joseph N. Manago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1420838067

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Aesthetics by Joseph N. Manago Pdf

How do friends deal with betrayal, incest, rape, sexual promiscuity, and broken hearts? A town full of teenagers attempting to live an adult life quickly learn that through all the hurt and pain, and through all the joy and laughter, ¿all that glitter isn¿t gold¿! A dangerous mystery lies with the new family in town, and Stacey Petersen, the heartbroken and immature idol, has fallen head over heels for the seductive son. Roger Jones carries a cloud of mystery and unforeseen danger wherever he goes. But, despite the danger, Stacey is determined to get her man. She¿s even willing to risk friendship and her family¿s trust to be a part of his world. Even though Roger¿s lustful eyes can¿t seem to escape Stacey¿s overt advances, he¿s determined to hold on to his family¿s secrets; including the question of his whereabouts when he disappears on ¿business trips¿ for days at a time. ¿Do you think he's seeing someone else?" her beloved friend Donna asked. On her quest to get her man, Stacey will find that she will get more than she bargained for. Trapped in the tumultuous whirlwind that lies between childhood and adulthood, Stacey and her company of adolescent friends will find themselves facing many of life¿s ugly truths and a wealth of unanswered questions, which teenagers haven¿t yet acquired the life experiences to deal with. ¿This Night Belongs to You¿ combines humor with realism in telling the murderous tale of a young girl¿s coming of age. It is a novel about the joy of friendship, about the influence of family on adolescence, about the psychology of sexual misbehavior, and last but never least.....it is a story about the calming beauty of love.

Author : Leo J. Elders
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004451896

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The Metaphysics of Being of St. Thomas Aquinas in a Historical Perspective by Leo J. Elders Pdf

Metaphysics, formerly the queen of science, fell into oblivion under the onslaught of empiricism and positivism and its very possibllity came to be denied. Professor Elders traces the history of this process and shows how St. Thomas innovated in determining both the subject of metaphysics and the manner in which one enters this science, particularly in the framework of his Aristotle commentaries. The work then considers being and its properties, its divisions into being in act and being in potency, into the act of being essence, and into substance and the accidents. Finally the causes of being are considered. The work also introduces and surveys the extensive literature of Thomas interpretation of the past 50 years.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0091823595

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The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas by Umberto Eco Pdf

Author : Kevin E. O'Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123379955

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Aesthetic Perception by Kevin E. O'Reilly Pdf

In his seminal work, "Truth and Method", Hans-Goerg Gadamer highlighted the misguided supposition of the Enlightenment that such a thing as 'pure reason' actually exists. The notion that 'prejudice' informs all understanding is not however a novel one in the history of Western thought; this idea is to be found in the work of Aquinas, albeit in an implicit manner. In this book the implications of this idea for a Thomistic approach to the problematic of aesthetic perception are examined. Beginning with Thomas' famous definition of beautiful things as 'those things which when seen give pleasure', the author highlights the limitations present in previous treatments of Thomas' embryonic aesthetic theory and shows how insights gleaned from Thomas' virtue ethics can contribute to a Thomistic aesthetic theory, a theory which has relevance for both philosophy and theology.

Author : Martino Rossi Monti,Davor Pećnjak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527562004

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What is Beauty? A Multidisciplinary Approach to Aesthetic Experience by Martino Rossi Monti,Davor Pećnjak Pdf

Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behaviour? What does literature have to do with beauty? What are the limitations of neuroscientific approaches to beauty? Are the experience of beauty and the production of “art” confined to anatomically modern humans? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans at all? These are just some of the questions discussed in this volume. It gathers together authors from different areas of research, including philosophy, history of philosophy, history of ideas, cognitive biology, neuroscience, anthropology and paleoanthropology, in order to investigate some of the most debated aspects of the problem of beauty and aesthetic experience. The volume will appeal to both the general reader and the specialist in the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences.

Author : Alice M. Ramos
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.