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Beauty and being : Thomistic perspectives / Piotr Jaroszyński ; translated by Hugh McDonald with the collaboration of the author.
- Title
- Beauty and being : Thomistic perspectives / Piotr Jaroszyński ; translated by Hugh McDonald with the collaboration of the author.
- Author
- Jaroszyński, Piotr.
- Publication
- Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, c2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
- Description
- x, 269 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Etienne Gilson series, 0708-319X ; 33
- Uniform Title
- Spór o piękno. English
- Etienne Gilson series ; 33.
- Alternative Title
- Spór o piękno.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-262) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translation of: Spór o piękno.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Theories of beauty in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Three great theories of beauty ; Univocity, equivocity, or analogy? ; Why not the fine arts? ; Summary of part one -- Beauty in aesthetics. What is aesthetics? ; The separation of beauty from being ; The divorce of beauty from nature ; The identification of beauty with aesthetic value ; Theories of beauty ; The crisis of beauty in aesthetics -- Toward a philosophy of beauty. Between being and person ; Beauty as the first impact of being ; Beauty as the person's response to being ; Transcendental beauty ; The analogical character of beauty ; The paradox of ugliness -- Conclusion -- Appendix one: Wittegenstein's family resemblances : equivocity or analogy -- Appendix two: Different realms of beauty -- Appendix three: Is beauty a value? -- Appendix four: Failures of classification of definition of beauty.
- ISBN
- 9780888447333
- 0888447337
- OCLC
- 705507752
- SCSB-12168550
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library