Literature & the Moral Imagination

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Beauty and Truth in Art

Post author By Lisa Nicholas, Ph. D.
Post date September 24, 2012
Categories In Legacy
Tags art, beauty, Thomas Aquinas, Winged Victory

Real beauty is allied with truth and leads us to contemplation. We should not waste time on trash passing itself off as art, but develop our faculty to perceive truth through beauty.Continue readingBeauty and Truth in Art

Post author By Lisa Nicholas, Ph. D.
Categories In Legacy
Tags art, beauty, Thomas Aquinas, Winged Victory
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Poetic Knowledge, the Lost “Science”

Post author By Lisa Nicholas, Ph. D.
Post date September 18, 2012
Categories In Catholic Reader, Legacy
Tags Catholic counter-culture, Crisis magazine, great books, Moral Imagination, poetic imagination, Thomas Aquinas

The world is a poorer and more dangerous place these days, because our imaginations have been starved. Join the Christian counter-culture by feeding your poetic imagination with great literary works that reveal the truth about human nature.Continue readingPoetic Knowledge, the Lost “Science”

Post author By Lisa Nicholas, Ph. D.
Categories In Catholic Reader, Legacy
Tags Catholic counter-culture, Crisis magazine, great books, Moral Imagination, poetic imagination, Thomas Aquinas
1 Comment on Poetic Knowledge, the Lost “Science”