Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-393) and indexes.
Contents:
Beauty and the read: purifying our vision and our loves / Alice M. Ramos. "All men by nature desire to know": the classical background of Aquinas on beauty and truth / Eric D. Perl -- The obviousness of the kalon in Aristotle's ethics / Michael Pakaluk -- Beauty and the intellectual virtues in Aristotle / Mark K. Spencer -- Justice is beautiful: Aristotle, Aquinas, and justice as a virtue / Jonathan J. Sanford -- The light of pure character: honestum, decorum, and the stoic sage / Mary Beth Ingham -- Beauty as form in Augustine's De vera religione: the implications of moral pedagogy for a theology of history / Paige E. Hochschild -- Beauty and the good in Dionysius the Areopagite / Brendan Thomas Sammon -- Beauty in Hugh of St. Victor: the first Christian theological aesthetics? / Boyd Taylor Coolman -- Beauty, pleasure, and happiness in Albert the Great's Super ethica commentum et quaestiones / Martin J. Tracey -- Bonaventure's aesthetic imperative: pulcherrimum carmen / Christopher M. Cullen, SJ -- Manifesting being: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Bonaventure and the transcendental status of beauty / Mark McInroy -- Beauty and aesthetic perception in Thomas Aquinas / Daniel D. De Haan -- Symphonic grandeur: moral beauty and the judgment of harmony in John Duns Scotus / Mary Beth Ingham -- Beauty and the read: purifying our vision and our loves / Alice M. Ramos.
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"--Provided by publisher
Series:
Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; volume 62
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