The Sense of the Beautiful and Apophatic Thought: Empirical Being as Ikon
Abstract. This essay is an interdisciplinary study of beauty that attempts to bridge the gap between religion/theology and science in some measure by drawing from Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500) a notion of being that I argue is consonant with the notion of the sense of the beautiful, which I deve...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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Zygon
Year: 2007, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 535-552 |
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Theology
B ikon B Beauty B Dionysius the Areopagite (Denys) B apophatic thought / apophaticism / apophasis B Science B theophanic B empirical being |
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| Summary: | Abstract. This essay is an interdisciplinary study of beauty that attempts to bridge the gap between religion/theology and science in some measure by drawing from Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500) a notion of being that I argue is consonant with the notion of the sense of the beautiful, which I develop using Steven Weinberg's and Werner Heisenberg's discussions of empirical beauty. I use the term ikon to refer concisely to Dionysius' theophanic notion of being, namely, that the beyond-being is nonsubstantially present in being. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00535.x |