St. Thomas Aquinas

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+ Radiance: Luminosity whichemanates a beautiful object:“Radiance belongs to being considered precisely asbeautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear,or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again” [EtienneGilson, The Arts of the Beautiful (Dalkey Archive Press, 2000),35].Because all that is beautiful is connected to God, the Cause ofall beauty, radiance will find expression.“Beauty consists in a certain lustre and proportion” ~<strong>Aquinas</strong> in Summa Theol., II-a II-ae q. 180 a. 2 ad. 3.Consider this example …
+“We call a man beautifulbecause of its fittingproportion of his membersin their number andarrangement, and becauseof his having a bright andglowing colour.Consequently, it should beassumed in other cases toothat the name of beauty isgiven to all that which hasthe clarity proper to its kind,whether spiritual orphysical, and which isconstructed in properproportion.” De div. c. IV lect 5(Mandonnet, 362-363).
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Page 13 and 14: + Form: “As each thing has its ow
Page 15: + Proportion: The Fact of Harmony:
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