Author: John Leonard CallahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Theory of Esthetic According to the Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas ... by Leonard Callahan ...
Author: John Leonard CallahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Theory of Esthetic According to the Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas, By Leonard Callahan
Author: John Leonard CallahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Theory of Esthetic According to the Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: John Leonard CallahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Theory of Esthetic According to the Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas ... by Leonard Callahan ...
Author: John Leonard CallahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Theory of Esthetic According to the Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas. A Dissertation ... for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Author: John Leonard CallahanA Theory of Esthetic According to the Principles of St. Thomas Aquinas ... by Leonard Callahan ...
Author: Frederick Charles CoplestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Aquinas on Beauty
Author: Christopher Scott SevierPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739184253
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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 Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Author: Umberto EcoPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006768
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
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.
The Principles of Beauty and Art in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: Louis CamilloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The God Who Is Beauty
Author: Brendon Thomas SammonPublisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227902211
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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.