TY - BOOK ID - 31385997 TI - Aquinas on beauty PY - 2015 SN - 1498512542 0739184253 9781498512541 9780739184240 0739184245 9780739184257 PB - Lanham DB - UniCat KW - Aesthetics, Medieval. KW - Thomas, KW - Aesthetics. KW - Medieval aesthetics KW - Akʻvineli, Tʻoma, KW - Akvinietis, Tomas, KW - Akvinskiĭ, Foma, KW - Aquinas, KW - Aquinas, Thomas, KW - Foma, KW - Thomas Aquinas, KW - Tʻoma, KW - Toma, KW - Tomas, KW - Tomasu, KW - Tomasu, Akwinasu, KW - Tomasz, KW - Tommaso, KW - Tʻovma, KW - Тома, Аквінський, KW - תומאס, KW - תומס, KW - اكويني ، توما KW - Estetik KW - Historia. KW - Thomas av Aquino, KW - Medeltiden. KW - Ākvīnās, Tūmās, KW - اكويني، توما, KW - آکويناس، توماس, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31385997 AB - Christopher Scott Sevier's Aquinas on Beauty is a very impressive piece of scholarship on a perennially interesting but notoriously mysterious and elusive subject. The author has done his homework, understood all the relevant medieval nuances of the subject, and has clearly explained and readably expressed Aquinas' major points directly and succinctly. Sevier demonstrates how Aquinas' aesthetic follows from and presupposes his metaphysics and cosmology, and clarifies the contrasts between Aquinas and modern theories of beauty. This book will be a touchstone for all subsequent investigations of ER -