Bellezza e piacere. La fatica del giudizio estetico in qualche pagina medievale

Abstract

Through some pages of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas we see some medieval solutions to the platonic drama of a beauty defined by numbers and measures, however with suprasensible roots: how can we say beautiful what cannot be measured? If Beauty is Harmony and Proportion, consequently how can it derive from a suprasensible beauty? How will it be possible to express aesthetic judgments that go beyond measurement? The medieval answers to these questions are far beyond the postmodern uncertainties, maintaining paradoxes.

Keywords

• Augustine of Hippo
• Thomas Aquinas
• beauty
• harmony
• aesthetic judgments
• platonism
• ideal numbers