Research Catalog

Title

Aesthetic experience in religion.

Author

MacGregor, Geddes.

Publication

London, Macmillan, 1947.

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Details

Description

xiv, 264 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Aesthetics
• Experience (Religion)
• Religion > Philosophy
• Mysticism
• Christian art and symbolism
• Mysticism
• mysticism
• 08.41 esthetics
• Aesthetics
• Christian art and symbolism
• Religion > Philosophy
• Mystizismus
• Religion
• Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
• Esthetische ervaring
• Religieuze ervaring
• Mystiek

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 251-255.

Contents

Introduction -- Part One -- Chapter I: The Development of Modern Aesthetics -- The Problem of Beauty -- The Beginnings -- From the Death of Aristotle to Plotinus -- The Early Middle Ages -- Aquinas -- From Dante to the Seicento -- The Rise of the Modern Approach -- Vico -- From Kant to Hegel -- Towards the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Modern Aesthetics -- Chapter II: An Account of the Estetica -- Intuition and Expression -- Intuition and Art -- Art and philosophy -- Historicism and Intellectualism in Aesthetics -- Analogous Errors in Historiology and Logic -- Theoretical and Practical Activity -- Analogy between the Theoretical and the Practical -- The Exclusion of Other Forms of Mind -- The Indivisibility of Expression -- Sentiment; the Distinction between the Beautiful and the Ugly -- Aesthetic Hedonism -- Pseudo-Aesthetic Conceptions -- The "Physically Beautiful" -- The Confusion between Physics and Aesthetics -- Externalization -- Taste -- The History of Literature and Art -- The Identity of Linguistics and Aesthetics -- Chapter III: A Critical Examination of the Estetica -- Croce's Standpoint -- That which is Intuited -- The Identity of Intuition, Expression, Art, and Beauty -- The Communication of Aesthetic Experience -- Degrees of Beauty and of Expression; and the Problem of Ugliness -- Expression and Einfühlung -- The Metaphysical Agnosticism of Croce -- Chapter IV: Some Difficulties, and a Fresh Approach -- The Fundamental Difficulties -- Two Problems -- The Thornist Approach -- Aesthetic Intuition and "Ordinary" Perception -- Aesthetic Appearance and Reality -- Saint Thomas and Einfühlung -- Transition to our Main Inquiry -- Part Two -- Chapter V: Our Knowledge of God -- Is there an Independent Religious Mode of Experience? -- The Scope of Religion -- Catholic Mysticism -- The Rational Ground of Catholic Theology -- The Validity of Analogical Method -- Analogical Knowledge of God -- Analogical Knowledge of God by Faith -- Mystical Intellection -- Mystical Experience and Philosophy -- Speculative and Practical "Knowledge" -- A Critical Review of Maritain; and our Hypothesis -- Chapter VI: An Examination of Catholic Mysticism -- The Philosophical Grounds of Catholic Mysticism -- "Western Mysticism" -- Mediaeval Mysticism -- The Spanish Mystics -- The Salesian Tradition -- The Rejection of Imagery -- Aesthesis, Empathy, and Mystical Union -- Chapter VII: The Function of Aesthetic Experience in Religion -- The Goal of Religion -- The Terminus a Quo and the Terminu and Quem -- Morality in Religion -- Art in Religion -- The Idea of Revelation -- Aesthetic Experience and the Fine Point -- The Beatific Vision -- Conclusion.

LCCN

47030751

OCLC

• ocm01266634
• 1266634
• SCSB-127437

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library