Research Catalog

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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Details

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

• Aesthetics
• Ontology

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