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The dawn of the invisible : the reception of the platonic doctrine on beauty in the Christian middle ages : Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa
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The dawn of the invisible : the reception of the platonic doctrine on beauty in the Christian middle ages : Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa / Melanie Bender.
ISBN
9783840500060
3840500060
Published
Münster : Verlagshaus Monsenstein und Vannerdat, c2010.
Physical Description
400 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Münster, 2007.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 08, 2010
Series
Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster. Reihe II ; Bd. 2
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [370]-400).
Contents
Introduction
Plato's doctrine on beauty : the longing for the eternal
Beauty in Aristotle's writings and in early Neoplatonism
Beauty according to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite : the non-cognitive unification with the beautiful-and-good
The doctrine on beauty in Albert the Great : the implicit aspiration of the beautiful
Beauty in the teaching of Thomas Aquinas : the repose of desire in cognition
The doctrine on beauty according to Nicholas of Cusa : the Iudex pulchritudinis
Conclusion.
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