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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Main Author: Rhodes, Michael Craig (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2007
In: Zygon
Year: 2007, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 535-552
Further subjects:B 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.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00535.x