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Redeeming Philosophy from Metaphysics to Aesthetics

Author : John J. Conley
Publisher : Amer Maritain Assn Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780982711965
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Philosophy from Metaphysics to Aesthetics written by John J. Conley and published by Amer Maritain Assn Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the Thomism of Jacques Maritain, this collection of essays explores how philosophy can redeem contemporary society from some of its defects and how contemporary philosophy itself can be redeemed through a revival of philosophical realism. Scholarly in form and tone, these essays echo the everyday questions tormenting the American Catholic community.

Aesthetic Realism

Author : Inês Morais
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030201279
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Realism written by Inês Morais and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book defends realism concerning the aesthetic—in particular, concerning the aesthetic properties of works of art (including works of literature). Morais lucidly argues that art criticism, when referring to aesthetic properties, is referring not ultimately to the critic’s subjective reactions, but to genuine properties of the works. With a focus on contemporary discussion conducted in the analytic tradition, as well as on arguments by Hume and Kant, this book characterizes the debate in aesthetics and the philosophy of art concerning aesthetic realism, examining attacks on the objectivity of values, the ‘autonomy thesis’, and Hume’s sentimentalism. Considering and defusing scepticism concerning the significance of the ontological debate about aesthetic realism, Morais discusses two powerful attacks on aesthetic realism before defending the doctrine against them and providing a positive realist account of aesthetic properties.

Redeeming Philosophy

Author : Vern S. Poythress
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433539497
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Philosophy written by Vern S. Poythress and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who am I? Why am I here? Where do I find meaning? Life is full of big questions. The study of philosophy seeks answers to such questions. In his latest book, prolific author Vern Poythress investigates the foundations and limitations of Western philosophy, sketching a distinctly Christian approach to answering basic questions about the nature of humanity, the existence of God, the search for meaning, and the basis for morality. For Christians eager to engage with the timeless philosophical issues that have perplexed men and women for millennia, this is the place to begin.

The Metaphysics of Beauty

Author : Nick Zangwill
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711350
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Beauty written by Nick Zangwill and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Nick Zangwill investigates the nature of beauty as we conceive it, and as it is in itself. The notion of beauty is currently attracting increased interest, particularly in philosophical aesthetics and in discussions of our experiences and judgments about art. In The Metaphysics of Beauty, Zangwill argues that it is essential to beauty that it depends on the ordinary features of things. He uses this principle to defend the notion of the aesthetic, to call for a version of aesthetic formalism, and to reconsider the reality of beauty. The Metaphysics of Beauty brings beauty to the center of intellectual consciousness in a manner informed by contemporary metaphysics and engages with beauty as an enduring object of human thought and experience.

The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498241549
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being written by William Desmond and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us, not what gives delight or even consoles. By contrast, attention is given to how beauty arouses enigmatic joy in us, and we enjoy an elemental rapport with it as other. Surprised by beauty, our breath is taken away, but we are more truly there with the beautiful when we are taken outside of ourselves. We are first receivers of the gift of surprise and only then perceivers and conceivers. My attention to the passion of being stresses a patience, a receptivity to what is other. What happens is not first our construction. There is something given, something awakening, something delighting, something energizing, something of invitation to transcendence. The theme is amplified in diverse reflections: on life and its transient beauty; on soul music and its relation to self; on the shine on things given in creation; on beauty and Schopenhauer's dark origin; on creativity and the dynamis in Paul Weiss's creative ventures; on redemption in Romanticism in the thought of Stanley Cavell; on theater as a between or metaxu; on redeeming laughter and its connection with the passion of being.

The Significance of the Aesthetic in Whitehead's Metaphysics and Philosophy of Education

Author : David Lee Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Significance of the Aesthetic in Whitehead's Metaphysics and Philosophy of Education written by David Lee Miller and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aesthetics After Metaphysics

Author : Miguel de Beistegui
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415539625
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics After Metaphysics written by Miguel de Beistegui and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment - explicit or implicit - to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds outside the space that stretches between the sensible and the supersensible - the space of metaphysics itself - as the hypersensible and show how the operation of art to which it corresponds is best described as metaphorical. The movement of the book, then, is from the classical or metaphysical aesthetics of mimesis (Part One) to the aesthetics of the hypersensible and metaphor (Part Two). Against much of the history of aesthetics and the metaphysical discourse on art, he argues that the philosophical value of art doesn't consist in its ability to bridge the space between the sensible and the supersensible, or the image and the Idea, and reveal the sensible as proto-conceptual, but to open up a different sense of the sensible. His aim, then, is to shift the place and role that philosophy attributes to art.

On Beauty or solving the mind-body problem

Author : Margriet Hovens
Publisher : Gompel&Svacina
ISBN 13 : 9463712461
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book On Beauty or solving the mind-body problem written by Margriet Hovens and published by Gompel&Svacina. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book about Beauty and its deep philosophical meaning serves an ambitious goal. The two authors point to a possibility to transcend the philosophical duality between body and mind. The concept of Beauty is part of the Platonic trinity that also includes the concepts of the Good and the Truth. These are the three attibutes of the Spirit. The Spirit or divine Soul is a binary unity that contains the material and immaterial character of being. The question is a single source of the Spirit is thinkable, leads to a metaphysical speculation which also is the end of the book. The analysis of the concept of Beauty is echoed in two other concepts: the Good and the Truth. But on the level of natural physics, this analysis treats the structure of time-space and the deep structure of matter. Quantum physics, the behaviour of light and the laws of gravity and entropy find their place in this edifice which we call material reality. This knowledge of physics also contains the building blocks of a theory of mind. Mind and matter are inseparably built into each other. Physics and metaphysics imply each other on the level of a living, organic and inorganic reality. This book is written for everybody who looks for answers to the fundamental question of what life is: who and what are we as human beings; what could be the meaning of life and what is the structure of our reality? The essence of these writings is the question into the value of beauty, the value of human culture and the question how we are part of the wonderful order of nature. Philosophical and scientific jargon is explained in parts where it was inevitable to use.

Placing Aesthetics

Author : Robert E. Wood
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821412809
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Placing Aesthetics written by Robert E. Wood and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetics, argues Wood (philosophy, U. of Dallas) lies not at the periphery of the speculative tradition, but at its center, and is linked to a sense of the whole that withers when thought focuses exclusively on specialization. Selecting moments from the tradition, he locates the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of the philosophy of thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Re-emergence of Metaphysical Aesthetics

Author : Betty Conrad Adam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Re-emergence of Metaphysical Aesthetics written by Betty Conrad Adam and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity

Author : Matthew Rampley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521651557
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity written by Matthew Rampley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity analyzes Nietzsche's response to the aesthetic tradition, tracing in particular the complex relationship between the work and thought of Nietzsche, Kant, and Hegel. Focusing in particular on the critical role of negation and sublimity in Nietzsche's account of art, it explores his confrontation with modernity and his attempt to posit a revitalized artistic practice as the counter-movement to modern nihilism. It also highlights the extent to which Nietzsche counters the culture of his own time with a dialectical notion of aesthetic interpretation and practice.

Redeeming Beauty

Author : Aidan Nichols O.P.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351906070
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Beauty written by Aidan Nichols O.P. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redeeming Beauty explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of 'sacral aesthetics' - a term used to denote the foundations, production and experience of religiously relevant beauty. Aidan Nichols investigates five principal themes: the foundation of beauty in the natural order through divine creative action; explicitly 'evangelical' beauty as a quality of biblical revelation and notably at its climax in Christ; the legitimacy of making and venerating artworks; qualities of the self in relation to objective presentation of the religiously beautiful; and the difficulties of practising a sacral aesthetic, whether as producer or consumer, in an epoch when the visual arts themselves have left behind not only Church but for the greater part the public as well. The thought of theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas, Balthasar, Ratzinger, Bulgakov, Maritain and others are explored.

Philosophy of Beauty

Author : Francis J. Kovach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806113630
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Beauty written by Francis J. Kovach and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has long been a need for a work on the philosophy of beauty treating fundamental problems against the background of the history of aesthetics--ancient and medieval as well as modern and contemporary. This book answers that need with the comprehensive presentations of an objectivist philosophy of beauty to balance the currently popular aesthetic subjectivism. It includes a synopsis of views and theories expressed on the various questions about beauty by philosophers down through the ages. Kovach's acquaintance with relevant literature from the ancient Greeks to twentieth-century authors is staggering. He draws on the observations of thinkers from ancient times--Plato, Aristotle. Philo of Alexandria, Cicero, Plotinus, Augustine, Dionysius the Areopagite, and others; from medieval times--Alexander of Hales, John of la Rochelle, Thomas of York, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Dionysius the Carthusian, and others; from modern times--Descartes, J. Addison, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoi, Santayana, Croce, Maritain, Sartre, H. Read, Thomas Munro, and others. With delicate precision Kovach systematically discusses the philosophy of beauty and the problems it raises. Whether or not one agrees with Kovach's objectivist position, no one in the field can afford to be without this book.

Beauty and Holiness

Author : James Alfred Martin, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860598
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and Holiness written by James Alfred Martin, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to "worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" addressed a tradition that has comprehended holiness primarily in terms of ethical righteousness--a conception that has strongly influenced Western understandings of religion. As the author points out, however, the Greek forbears of Western thought, as well as many Eastern traditions, were and are more broadly concerned with the pursuit of beauty, truth, and goodness as ideals of human excellence, that is, with the "holiness of beauty." In this work Martin describes a philosophical stance that should prove to be most productive for the dialogue between aesthetics and religion. Beginning with the treatment of beauty and holiness in Hebrew, Greek, and classical Christian thought, the author traces the emergence of modern theories of aesthetics and religion in the Enlightenment. He then outlines the role of aesthetics in the theories of religion proposed by Otto, Eliade, van der Leeuw, and Tillich, in the cultural anthropology of Geertz, and in the thought of Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. In a global context Martin explores the relation of aesthetic theory to religious thought in the traditions of India, China, and Japan and concludes with reflections on the viability of modern aesthetic and religious theory in the light of contemporary cultural and methodological pluralism. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Aesthetic Order

Author : Ruth Lorand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134562624
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Order written by Ruth Lorand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic Order challenges contemporary theories of aesthetics, offering the idea of beauty as quantitative yet different from the traditional discursive order. It will be of importance to all interested in aesthetic theory.

Aesthetics

Author : James Orvil Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415338905
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics written by James Orvil Young and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Irreducibility of the Human Person

Author : Mark K. Spencer
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235200
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Irreducibility of the Human Person written by Mark K. Spencer and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a philosophical portrait of human persons that depicts each way in which we are irreducible, with the goal of guiding the reader to perceive, wonder at, and love all the unique features of human persons. It builds this portrait by showing how claims from many strands of the Catholic tradition can be synthesized. These strands include Thomism, Scotism, phenomenology, personalism, nouvelle théologie, analytic philosophy, and Greek and Russian thought. The book focuses on how these traditions' claims are grounded in experience and on how they help us to perceive irreducible features of persons. This book also explores irreducible features of our subjectivity, senses, intellect, freedom, and affections, and of our souls, bodies, and activities"--