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Nichols on Maritain on the Beautiful

0 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen August 30th, 2007 in Aesthetics, Aidan Nichols, Jacques Maritain

In chapter seven of his book, Redeeming Beauty:  Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics, Nichols discusses, among other things, Jacques Maritain’s view of pulchrum (the beautiful).  Maritain appeals to St. Thomas’ dictum in which beauty is defined as id quod visum placet.  According to Maritain this definition relates to the effect, not the essence, i.e., the beautiful [...]

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