Aquinas on Beauty

Christopher Scott Sevier (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8424-0 (ISBN)

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This book comprehensively examines the aesthetic views of Thomas Aquinas, treating both the objective nature and the subjective human experience of beauty. It locates Aquinas’s views in their historical context and illustrates their relations to other popular aesthetic views.

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.

Christopher Scott Sevier teaches philosophy at the College of Southern Nevada.

Chapter 1Introduction
Chapter 2Psychological Components of Beauty
Chapter 3Human Desire and Pleasure
Chapter 4Objective Components of Beauty
Chapter 5Comparison with Significant Influences
Chapter 6 Conclusion

Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 239 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-8424-5 / 0739184245
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-8424-0 / 9780739184240
Zustand	Neuware