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Ep. 63 - Beauty Revealing Being (Vision of the Soul Pt. II) - James Matthew Wilson
It is in the nature of Being to reveal itself to us, and in the natural realm this is done preeminently through beauty.
Aquinas mentions radiance, clarity and proportion as beauty's three criteria. Proportion is arguably the most important in showing forth Being, as beauty reveals the plenitude of relations among all things: the relation of the parts of a thing, of the parts to the whole which surpasses them, of the whole object to all other things, and to its Maker.
This is part two of a three-part interview with poet and philosopher James Matthew Wilson about his book The Vision of the…
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