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Art in Defense of and Against Human Freedom – An Outline of the Relation from the Perspective of Thomistic Philosophy of Art
Mateusz Woch
Abstract
The article addresses the issue of the relationship between art and freedom in the light of the philosophy of art developed in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, practiced by 20th-century Neo-Thomists. The article characterizes art as a specific type of potency, adopting the definition of art as the virtue of practical intellect and its privative-mimetic theory, with particular consideration of the privative aspect, according to which the ontological deficiencies are the reason and context of art. Freedom, as an attribute of potency that art represents, and the specifics of poetic knowledge and action, justify the freedom of art, which can either support human freedom and goodness or act against them.
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philosophy of art, Thomism, art, freedom, goodDetails
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