Aquinas On Beauty
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Aquinas On Beauty
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Author : Christopher Scott Sevier
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2015-02-12
Aquinas On Beauty written by Christopher Scott Sevier and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with Philosophy categories.
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.
The God Who Is Beauty
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Author : Brendon Thomas Sammon
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Release Date : 2014-09-25
The God Who Is Beauty written by Brendon Thomas Sammon and has been published by James Clarke & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Religion categories.
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.
Dynamic Transcendentals
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Author : Alice Ramos
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2012-05-07
Dynamic Transcendentals written by Alice Ramos and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-07 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Thomas Aquinas On The Nature And Experience Of Beauty
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Author : Christopher Scott Sevier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Thomas Aquinas On The Nature And Experience Of Beauty written by Christopher Scott Sevier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Aesthetics, Medieval categories.
The Aesthetics Of Thomas Aquinas
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1988
The Aesthetics Of Thomas Aquinas written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Aesthetics categories.
Who Designed The Designer
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Author : Michael Augros
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2015-03-23
Who Designed The Designer written by Michael Augros and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-23 with Philosophy categories.
The ಜNew Atheistsಝ are pulling no punches. If the world of nature needs a designer, they ask, then why wouldn't the designer itself need a designer, too? Or if it can exist without any designer behind it, then why can't we just say the same for the universe and wash our hands of a designer altogether? Interweaving its pursuit of the First Cause with personal stories and humor, this ground-breaking book takes a fresh approach to ultimate questions. While attentive to empirical science, it builds its case not on authoritative pronouncements of experts that readers must take on faith, but instead on a nuanced understanding of universal principles implicit in everyone's experience. Here is essential reading for all people who care about contemplating God, not exclusively as a best-explanation for the findings of science, but also as the surprising-yet-inevitable implication of our commonsense contact with reality. Augros harnesses such intellects as Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, ushering into the light a wealth of powerful inferences that have hitherto received little or no public exposure. The result is an easygoing yet extraordinary journey, beginning from the world as we all encounter it and ending in the divine mind.
Restoring Ancient Beauty
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Author : James Keating
language : en
Publisher: American Maritain Association
Release Date : 2021-06-18
Restoring Ancient Beauty written by James Keating and has been published by American Maritain Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-18 with categories.
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.
The Vision Of The Soul
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Author : James Matthew Wilson
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2017
The Vision Of The Soul written by James Matthew Wilson and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art categories.
Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead—an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew Wilson seeks to conserve the great insights of the western tradition by giving us a new account of them responsive to modern discontents. The western— or Christian Platonist—tradition, he argues, tells us that man is an intellectual animal, born to pursue the good, to know the true, and to contemplate all things in beauty. Wilson begins by reconceiving the intellectual conservatism born of Edmund Burke’s jeremiad against the French Revolution as an effort to preserve the West’s vision of man and the cosmos as ordered by and to beauty. After defining the achievement of that vision and its tradition, Wilson offers an extended study of the nature of beauty and the role of the fine arts in shaping a culture but above all in opening the human intellect to the perception of the form of reality. Through close studies of Theodor W. Adorno and Jacques Maritain, he recovers the classical vision of beauty as a revelation of truth and being. Finally, he revisits the ancient distinction between reason and story-telling, between mythos and logos, in order to rejoin the two. Story-telling is foundational to the forms of the fine arts, but it is no less foundational to human reason. Human life in turn constitutes a specific kind of form—a story form. The ancient conception of human life as a pilgrimage to beauty itself is one that we can fully embrace only if we see the essential correlation between reason and story and the essential convertibility of truth, goodness and beauty in beauty. By turns a study in fundamental ontology, aesthetics, and political philosophy, Wilson’s book invites its readers to a renewal of the West’s intellectual tradition.
Beauty And The Good
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Author : Alice Ramos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Beauty And The Good written by Alice Ramos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Aesthetics categories.
"Seeking to provide a richer alternative to both the contemporary cult of beauty and appearance and the concomitant decline of real beauty, this book offers a systematic treatment of the relationship between beauty and the good by drawing from ancient (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, and others) and medieval (e.g., Aquinas, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, and others) thought in such a way as to bring together scholars in these traditions"--