Sunday, November 11, 2007

"Beauty" from the Encyclopedia of Aethetics Part 2

Plotinus (third century), perhaps with exaltation in mind, argued that beauty should not be identified with symmetry, harmony, and proportion alone, but is related to the Ideal, beyond sense. Simple things can be beautiful, not in the order of their parts but in the ideal that illuminates them. Beauty is the revelation of spirit in matter."

1 comment:

Matthew LaPine said...

See this article:
http://www.wts.edu/publications/wtj/edgar-spring-01.pdf