Beauty and its Relation to Goodness in Thomas Aquinas’s Philosophical System

Philosophical Investigations 13 (27):117-138 (2019)
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Beauty is a metaphysical concept in Thomas. Such an attitude about beauty necessarily will relate it to the other philosophical concepts. It can be said that the understanding of _beauty_ – which separated from _Good_- is impossible in the Hellenistic and middle ages thoughts- which are a kind of metaphysical one - because _Beauty_ and _Good_ are often enumerated as the objective properties of Beings in these thoughts. Thomas as other predecessors accepts the same idea about Beauty too and connects it with the Being. So we can enumerate beauty as one of the Transcendentals; one of which necessarily connect with _Goodness_; because the Transcendentals not only have connected with the _Being_ but also with each other. Beauty, in Aquinas' philosophy, is an objective property and at the same time has connected with apprehension and with the soul too. Because of this, the appetitive power of the soul will owe the beauty by the mediation of the intelligence.

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