The Effects of Beauty and the Redemption of the Ugly

• Authors: Riofrío Martínez-Villalba Juan Carlos
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper ponders on the aftermath effects of beauty, the ugly, and the hypotheses on how to get rid of the ugly. Due to the impossibility of addressing the effects of something that is entirely unknown, the author first attempts, in lieu of a definition of beauty, to examine the three classical conditions for beauty, which will otherwise be respected as in some sense a mystery. Secondly, he turns to the effects of beauty by analogy to the six effects of love as elucidated by Thomas Aquinas; in addition, he adds three other effects of beauty found in classical Greek thought: catharsis, epiphany, and pleasure. Thirdly, he reviews, by way of contrast, the corresponding effects of the ugly; and then he proposes how the ugly can be “redeemed” by beauty.

Keywords

EN

Thomas Aquinas; transcendentals; beauty; ugly; love; catharsis; epiphany; pleasure

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 401-430

Dates

published

2019-06-30

Contributors

author

Riofrío Martínez-Villalba Juan Carlos

• Universidad de los Hemisferios, Quito, Ecuador

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Identifiers

ISSN

2577-0314

ISSN

2300-0066

DOI

10.26385/SG.080217