Architecture: Thinking about Beauty and Reason
Apr 18, 2018
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2018-04-18 19:30:00
2018-04-18 20:30:00
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Architecture: Thinking about Beauty and Reason
Classical conceptions of beauty are associated with form—symmetry, balance, functionality—as well as delight. Dr. Hochschild will discuss the nature of beauty in the Catholic intellectual tradition, and its relationship to human rationality and to the appetitive dimensions of the person. In light of the centrality of the idea of revelation to the faith, architecture will be presented as a “visibile parlare”, a visible speech, declaring the nature of the Church and the central focus of the liturg
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