Aquinas On Beauty
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Aquinas On Beauty
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Author : Christopher Scott Sevier
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-02-12
Aquinas On Beauty written by Christopher Scott Sevier and has been published by Lexington Books 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.
The Aesthetics Of Thomas Aquinas
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1988
The Aesthetics Of Thomas Aquinas written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Philosophy categories.
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.
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.
About Beauty
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Author : Armand Augustine Maurer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
About Beauty written by Armand Augustine Maurer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Philosophy categories.
"Originally lectures given at the Center for Thomistic Studies"--Introd. Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Virtue Of Honor And Beauty According To St Thomas Aquinas
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Author : Cajetan Chereso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
The Virtue Of Honor And Beauty According To St Thomas Aquinas written by Cajetan Chereso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Aesthetics categories.
The God Who Is Beauty
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Author : Brendon Thomas Sammon
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Release Date : 2014-08-11
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 2014-08-11 with Religion categories.
"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.
Beauty Art And The Polis
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Author : Alice Ramos
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2000
Beauty Art And The Polis 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 2000 with Art categories.
Introduction by Ralph McInerny The essays in this volume, indebted in great part to Jacques Maritain and to other Neo-Thomists, represent a contribution to an understanding of beauty and the arts within the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. As such they constitute a different voice in present-day discussions on beauty and aesthetics, a voice which nonetheless shares with many of its contemporaries concern over questions such as the relationship between beauty and morality, public funding of the arts and their educational role, objective and universal standards of what is beautiful. In the tradition in which the contributors of this volume reflect, beauty manifests itself in the order of the universe, an order that provides human reason with a window onto the transcendent. For Aristotle and Aquinas the natural order grounds both art and morality, and yet it is this very order which has been called into question by modern science and philosophy. Instead of pointing us to a suprahuman order, the beautiful then points to the order of human freedom and creativity. Reflection on the beautiful since the modern philosopher Immanuel Kant has thus often taken a subjectivistic turn. Because of the importance of beauty and art in human existence, in man's education and life as a moral and political being, an alternative should be sought to any reduction of the beautiful to a purely subjective experience or cultural construct. The Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, in dialogue with modern and contemporary conceptions of the beautiful, provides us with just that alternative, and thus the essays herein represent a decisive step in the "journey for Thomistic aesthetics." THE CONTRIBUTORS: In addition to the editor, the contributors to the volume are: Brian J. Braman, Matthew Cuddeback, Christopher M. Cullen, S.J., Patrick Downey, Desmond J. FitzGerald, Donald Haggerty, Wayne H. Harter, Jeanne M. Heffernan, Thomas S. Hibbs, Gregory J. Kerr, Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Daniel McInerny, Ralph McInerny, James P. Mesa, John F. Morris, Ralph Nelson, Katherine Anne Osenga, Carrie Rehak, Stephen Schloesser, S.J., Francis Slade, John G. Trapani, Jr., and Henk E. S. Woldring. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Alice Ramos is associate professor of philosophy at St. John's University.
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.
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.