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Beauty and the Good - Recovering the Classical Tradition from Plato to Duns Scotus (Hardcover)
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Beauty and the Good - Recovering the Classical Tradition from Plato to Duns Scotus (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
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In the past twenty years or more, there has been a growing interest
among philosophers and theologians alike in the transcendentals and
especially in the beautiful. This seems fortuitous since so much of
contemporary culture is fixated in many ways on beauty, on what
might be called a superficial or man-made beauty, intent on outward
appearance, with little or no concern for the human person's
interiority and distinctive nature. The Ancients and the Medievals,
on the contrary, were sensitive not only to the beauty of nature
and art but also to beauty as intelligible, that is, to the beauty
of moral harmony and of metaphysical splendor. While the question
of whether the beautiful is in fact a transcendental aspect of
being continues to be a subject of dispute in contemporary
scholarship, the relationship between the beautiful and the good
has been accepted since ancient times and has been attended to in
recent publications. None of these publications, however, offers a
systematic treatment of this relationship by drawing from the
wisdom of both ancient and medieval thought in such a way as to
bring together the work of scholars in this tradition. Beauty and
the Good intends therefore to make a singular contribution by
presenting a richer alternative to the contemporary cult of beauty
and appearance on the one hand, and to the concomitant decline of
real beauty on the other hand. In addition to highlighting the
centrality of beauty in the Aristotelian account of moral virtue,
where virtue is kalon and virtuous actions are done for the sake of
kalon (the word kalon designates that which is beautiful, noble,
and good)-an account which is found echoed in the medieval notion
of intrinsic goodness (bonum honestum), understood as intelligible
or spiritual beauty-this volume will provide the metaphysical and
theological grounding for beauty, as influenced in part by Plato
and Neoplatonism, together with a much needed account of how we
know and judge beauty, and how for the recognition of true good and
real beauty we need to be properly disposed. The integration of
philosophical and theological reflection on the nature and
relationship of beauty and the good, on our perception and judgment
of beauty and of the good as beautiful, and on the motivational
role of beauty in human action has as its goal to produce a
coherent volume of essays.
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