Index
245 Index absolute beauty, 212 Absolute Intellect, 21 acedia, 60–62 act, first and second, 29, 42, 77 action: expressive and communicative, 131; of knowing, 29; proportional action, 152, 191, 203; “seemly” action , 185–89; virtuous acts, 4, 5, 8, 123, 184, 186–89, 192, 193 Active Mind, 20 actuality, 2, 15n18, 16, 17, 20, 33, 73, 82, 130 actualization, 5, 16, 20, 31, 42, 83; and perfection, 2, 25, 39, 100; role of evil and suffering in, 7, 100; and truth, 2, 6 adoption: of children of God, 141; as divine artistry, 142 Aertsen, Jan, 1–3 aesthetics, 72, 152–53, 186; aesthetic experience, 207, 208, 215, 221, 231; aesthetic order, 149, 177; aesthetic self-forgetfulness, 205–25; aesthetic self-invention, 52, 66; aesthetic sense, 157; aesthetic separatism, 208, 216–19; Christian aesthetics, 230–31; of creation, 72; and ethics, 219–24, 230; of everyday life, 234, 235; of existence, 51; and morality, 147, 149, 177, 182; new aesthetics of Kant, 208, 217–19, 220. See also beauty/beautiful affections and life of the mind, 47–67 affective conflict, 162–63 affective knowledge, 62, 156, 180, 197–204 ambition, 126 anamnesis, 171–72 anger, 198, 200, 209 anima and being, 1 apparent good, 3, 161, 163–64, 165, 166, 179–80, 230 appearance: concern for, 234; corporeal beauty versus spiritual beauty, 190; deceptive appearances, 211; false appearances, 210; interest in appearances, 233; outward appearances , 125; and vulnerability, 109– 12, 113–14, 125. See also bodily perceptions (appearances) appetites, 44, 64, 126, 159, 161, 168, 179, 185, 191, 196, 198, 201, 204, 217, 233; and the beautiful, 150, 157–68; and bodily pleasures, 54, 167, 175, 199; concupiscible appetite , 158, 163, 164, 195, 196; and the good, 153, 154, 156, 163–64, 191, 193; intellectual appetite, 150, 155, 156, 196; and moral virtues, 44, 198, 202; natural appetite, 42, 47; 246 Beauty, Order, and Teleology 246 index appetites (cont.) rational appetite, 92; rectified appetite , 185; right appetite, 6–7, 156– 57; sensible appetite, 158; sensitive appetite, 198, 200, 209–10 apprehension of the good, 153, 154–55 approval, 110; of God, 7, 121, 129, 130, 132; of men, 128–29 Aristophanes, 206 Aristotle, 12, 13n9, 15, 47, 54, 92, 148–49, 156, 184, 187n25, 225; and Aquinas, 6, 12, 54, 75, 122, 123, 156, 158–59, 162, 165, 201; army analogy of, 79; eudaimonia, 11–12; external goods and beauty, 110–11; and God, 12n3, 177–80; on imitation in art, 212–16; Lear’s interpretation of, 5, 12n3, 13–19, 26; on measure, 28, 31; megalopsychos, 109; on “seemly” action , 185–89 art, 8, 147, 208, 221; art for art’s sake, 219–24; artistic creation and measure , 29; artist’s idea as exemplar, 21, 80, 119; art of the artificer, 33, 35n29; and beauty, 71–93, 152, 205–8, 219–20, 231–32, 233, 234–35; divine art and artist, 6, 35, 37, 45, 71, 77–78, 79, 136; and fittingness, 234; as foretaste of happiness, 225; God’s wisdom and art, 38; imitation in, 208–16; independence from the true and the good, 220; intellectual enjoyment of, 214; order derived from, 79n40; pointing beyond the material, 235; as recognition, 215; and self-discovery, 219; and transformation , 216; true art, 8, 208, 234, 235; and truth and morality, 205–25. See also aesthetics; beauty/ beautiful artificer, 33–34 asceticism, 6, 51, 52, 58, 66 atheism, 48, 49, 67 Augustine, Saint, 38n38, 55, 59, 63, 98n10, 139, 144, 151n10, 171, 191, 206, 231 autonomy, 47–52, 166, 217, 218 aversio Dei, 49 Basil, Saint, 171 beatitude, 46, 141; and glory man has with God, 122, 124; perfect and imperfect beatitude, 11–12; of the rational creature, 129 Beauty (Scruton), 232 beauty/beautiful, 4, 72–79, 87, 110, 121, 122, 132, 135, 136, 203, 204, 207, 213n28, 217, 235; absolute beauty, 212; and the appetites, 150, 157–68; Aquinas’s definition of, 150–52; and art, 71–93, 152, 205–8, 219–20, 231–32, 233, 234–35; attributed to the exemplar, 138; beauty simpliciter, 82, 83, 88; contemplation of beauty, 231–32; of the contemplative life, 8, 180; of creatures, 190; desire for, 5, 153, 224–25; efforts to spoil, 234– 35; in ethics, 4; evil contributing to, 93, 96; experience of, 122, 207; external beauty, 113, 117, 232; external goods and beauty, 109–12, 113–14; face of the beautiful, 121; false and deceptive beauty, 59, 224–25; as the forgotten transcendental, 1, 71n4, 183; and God, 76...
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