[PDF]✔ Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters

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Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters
Sinopsis :
We are meant for beauty, and beauty is meant for us.What we
moderns have forgotten, the ancients knew well: true beauty
heals the soul, draws us to God, and yields lasting
happiness.Rich with the wisdom of Plato, Augustine, Aquinas,
and St. John Paul II, these pages unpack perennial truths
about beauty and rivet them into your soul, opening the eyes
of your understanding to the beauty all around us.Offering an
abundance of accessible examples, author John Mark
Miravalle demonstrates that beauty is neither in the eye of the
beholder, nor for the cultivated, the dreamer, or the hopeless
romantic alone. On the contrary, the ability to understand,
recognize, and delight in beauty readies all souls for heaven

and makes it easier for us to get there.From these pages,
you'll learn:Why beauty is not just a matter of opinionThe
virtues we need to perceive beauty and to enjoy itHow to
determine whether an artwork is truly beautifulThe respective
roles of reason and emotion in appreciating beautyHow the
beauty of nature testifies to God's existence . . . while rejection
of God obscures nature's beautyWith the help of these pages,
you'll receive fresh eyes to marvel again (or for the first time) at
the beauty of nature, music, art, architecture, and, most
importantly, the beauty of God, the fountainhead and exemplar
of all things on earth that are beautiful.