Bonaventure: education for beauty in the knowledge of the world and of God - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v36i1.22268

• Autor(a) principal: Cresta, Gerald
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; spa
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Education (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciEduc/article/view/22268
• topic: neo-platonism; metaphysics; light; transcendence; eoplatonismo; metafísica; luz; trascendentales

In the Middle Ages, the increasing autonomy on the nature of Beauty may be defined by three aspects that underscore the speculative approach on the concept: first, the Neoplatonic root in strict relationship with the Good (kalon); second, the Augustinian approach with its relationship between species and order, the factors that shine in created Beauty from the original divine source; third, the interpretation that predominated within Scholasticism and which gave to Beauty its transcendental beauty and established an intellectual distinction between the pulchrum and the bonum. Current research analyzes St Bonaventure´s position on the three perspectives and foregrounds the elaboration of the concept as from ‘light’ as a substantial form which traces a transcendental pedagogical scheme in which concepts and light bring accession modes to the knowledge of the world and its divine causal origin.