Beauty’s Appeal
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6521-7_4
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The Semantics of Beauty

Abstract: Aquinas holds that beauty is claritas. This is the Truth in its splendor, purity, and glory. Beauty is not a fictional artifact superimposed upon the features of the ordinary world. Beauty lets the essence of things appear as well as their mutual belonging and, sometimes, their cosmic togetherness. Beauty itself is not performable. It is performable, however, as a mise en scène of even the most ordinary objects. They can make beauty appear only through a perfect textuality that issues from rigorous syntax and … Show more

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