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Reality Check | Ep. 3 | David Clayton & The Way of Beauty

Jan Bentz May 5, 2024

Jan C. Bentz talks with David Clayton, artist, writer, and provost at Pontifex University, about beauty and art. Is beauty objective? Is it scientific? What makes a good artist good? All these and more related questions are tackled by Clayton in the context of art and sacred art.

Cristina Campo: Cartographer of Sunken Continents

Roy Peachey March 17, 2024

The Italian writer argued that when society dismisses or disparages beauty, it cuts itself off from reality itself.

The World as God’s Icon: A Must-Read Monograph on the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas

Robert Lazu Kmita January 10, 2024

A true celebration of the mind for lovers of classical ancient and medieval thought, Morello’s is a valuable guide.

Refurbishment of Notre Dame: The Triumph of the Aesthetics of Emptiness and Nonsense

Hélène de Lauzun July 9, 2023

It’s a safe bet that Archbishop Ulrich and his acolytes never asked themselves about the transmission of the faith and the salvation of souls when approving these supposedly aesthetic choices.

The Need for Beauty and the Scrutonian Legacy: An Interview with Ferenc Hörcher

A.M. Fantini June 25, 2023

The most important thing for Scruton was to show that beauty can lead us from worldly concerns to the most important themes of our lives.

Nationhood or Nihilism: Identity as Philosophical Combat

Carlos Perona Calvete March 28, 2023

Defenders of ‘the nation’ often fall back on practical issues of scale and power balance, ignoring the Biblical and Platonic tradition that celebrates the diversity of nations as an aesthetic good.

Ode to the Baguette

Hélène de Lauzun December 6, 2022

In Paris, despite Anne Hidalgo’s efforts, there are still traditions that resist, and on every street corner you can acquire, for the modest sum of one euro and a few cents, a piece of happiness and eternity.

Between Sensitivity and Beauty: Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo

Pepijn Leonard J. Demortier July 24, 2022

Hypersensitivity forces beauty into a politically-correct straitjacket. It is hardly surprising that such straitjackets kill beauty, for what cannot breathe, cannot live.

Spitting on the Beautiful

Michael W. Weyns July 17, 2022

The ideal of brotherhood is supposed to put everyone on equal footing. In reality, it has served as a moratorium on the cultivation of fatherly responsibility, barring everyone from the requisites for adulthood.

The Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven

Roger Watson June 5, 2022

From the bell preceding the priest’s entry, I was as engaged as I had ever been in any Mass.

Tag: beauty

Reality Check | Ep. 3 | David Clayton & The Way of Beauty

Cristina Campo: Cartographer of Sunken Continents

The World as God’s Icon: A Must-Read Monograph on the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas

Refurbishment of Notre Dame: The Triumph of the Aesthetics of Emptiness and Nonsense

The Need for Beauty and the Scrutonian Legacy: An Interview with Ferenc Hörcher

Nationhood or Nihilism: Identity as Philosophical Combat

Ode to the Baguette

Between Sensitivity and Beauty: Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo

Spitting on the Beautiful

The Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven

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