This is a crossover episode in which Thomas teams up with Scott Hambrick and Karl Schutt of the Online Great Books Podcast to discuss classic essays. art and scholasticism Written by Jacques Maritain.
Maritain insists on viewing both art and artists objectively, bringing a methodical, scholarly, and Thomistic approach to understanding aesthetics. Milas says, “Maritain understands art better than any other philosopher who came before him in the Western tradition.”
For Maritain, art is “the virtue of a practical intellect aimed at making.” The virtue or habitus of art, writes Maritain, is not simply “the inner growth of spontaneous life,” but has an intellectual character and involves cultivation and practice. .
The trio also talks about how fine art and practical art have been separated. How can we respect both without denigrating the other?
Scott says, “If we truly understood what art is, we would be more connected to honest work, which would become a refuge from the intellectual confusion and metaphysical nastiness that surrounds us.” “I guess so.”
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