Beauty's Appeal: Measure and Excess

by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Book Overview

Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature's enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. Carried by creative imagination (Imaginatio Creatrix), beauty participates in the moulding of the forms of the intellective constitution of the mind in tandem with praxis and seeks deeper enigmas of the real in the labyrinth of the cosmos. Yet with the evolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048176581
• ISBN13: 9789048176588
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"