Screen LibraryBeauty and the good : recovering the classical tradition from Plato to Duns Scotus /
"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 me...
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The Catholic University of America Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, D.C. : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ;
volume 62 |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 415 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-393) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780813233536 0813233534 |
| Index Number: | BH81 |
| CLC: | B83-09 |
| Call Number: | B83-09/B384 |
| Contents: |
Disclosing beauty: on order and disorder in Plato's Symposium / "All men by nature desire to know": the classical background of Aquinas on beauty and truth / The obviousness of the kalon in Aristotle's ethics / Beauty and the intellectual virtues in Aristotle / Justice is beautiful: Aristotle, Aquinas, and justice as a virtue / The light of pure character: honestum, decorum, and the stoic sage / Beauty as form in Augustine's De vera religione: the implications of moral pedagogy for a theology of history / Beauty and the good in Dionysius the Areopagite / Beauty in Hugh of St. Victor: the first Christian theological aesthetics? / Beauty, pleasure, and happiness in Albert the Great's Super ethica commentum et quaestiones / Bonaventure's aesthetic imperative: pulcherrimum carmen / Manifesting being: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Bonaventure and the transcendental status of beauty / Beauty and aesthetic perception in Thomas Aquinas / Symphonic grandeur: moral beauty and the judgment of harmony in John Duns Scotus / Beauty and the read: purifying our vision and our loves / |