Description: Aquinas on Beauty, Hardcover by Sevier, Christopher Scott, ISBN 0739184245, ISBN-13 9780739184240, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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’sDivine Names, including a comparison of his views with those of both Dionysius and those of Aquinas’s mentor, Albert the Great. Th 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 ofvia media between the common extremes.
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Book Title: Aquinas on Beauty
Author: Sevier, Christopher Scott
Language: english
