A philosophical exploration of the concept of possibility and its implications.
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[...] The first series of texts deals with painting. These are lectures given at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, under the directorship of Charles Le Brun, first painter of Louis XIV: during this period, the supporters of drawing dominate opinion - a reign that will give way, upon Le Brun's death in 1690 (Pierre Mignard will replace him), to that of the \"colorists\" reputed to be less intellectual and more sensual. The supporters of drawing thought that renouncing the requirement of drawing (which presupposes learned knowledge: geometry, perspective, physiognomy, expression, etc.), in favor of the effects of color, was to degrade the artist, to reduce him to the rank of a vulgar dyer, but also to degrade painting by making it an object for the eyes and not for the intellect. [...]
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[...] In definitive, by building something beautiful, the artist's work (which necessarily aims at the beautiful, otherwise what they do would not be art) allows us to apprehend, by analogy, divine creation as forming a supreme unity (it is therefore beautiful), while grasping the axiological value of it (it is good because everything is perfectly arranged for the best): the divine work is thus beautiful and good because it is first and foremost rational. - On Saint Thomas (Summa Theologica, text composed between 1266 and 1273, unfinished). Édition du Cerf, online. It is not a matter of reading the Summa sum . ) but of retaining the indicated passages. Dominican religious, declared Doctor of the Church by Pius V in 1567, Thomas is one of the main commentators on Aristotle; he sought to reconcile reason and faith through the conciliation of Aristotelianism and Christianity. [...]
