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9780941532716

Every Man an Artist Readings in the Traditional Philosophy of Art

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  • ISBN13:

    9780941532716

  • ISBN10:

    0941532712

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-07-13
  • Publisher: World Wisdom
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Summary

This striking title proposes a striking idea: To be fully human means to have an inclination toward art. However, the authors of this anthology go on to show us that the kind of art that fits with our deepest human society have turned away from their traditional values.

Table of Contents

Plato
Aristotle
Plotinus
The holy Bible
Corpus Hermeticum
Dionysius the areopagite
Eriugena
St. John of Damascus
St. Theodore the studite
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Bonaventure
Initiation and the crafts
The arts and their traditional conception
A figure of speech or a figure of thought?
The Christian and oriental, or true, philosophy of art
Principles and criteria of art
The general problem
The four causes
Of beauty
The decadence and the renewal of Christian art
Art and sacrament
The vertical dimension
Two economies
Why does art today lack inspiration?
Integration
On pottery and potting
Formal penmanship defined by the thing
Towards the Musica Perennis
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