Beauty: Theology, Ethics or Aesthetics

College
Instructor(s)
Course Code ICH3757HF
NOTE: Graduate degree students enrol in ICH6757HF
Semester First Semester
Section 0101
Online No
Credits One Credit
Location Toronto (St George Campus)
Description

Is beauty simply in the eye of the beholder or is it something more? Is it a way to God, a moral precept, or the specific locus for a unique kind of pleasure? This course examines a variety of subjective and objective views of beauty in the history of Western philosophy and theology from antiquity to the present (e.g. in the thought of Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Weil, Barth, and Balthasar). It will also consider the implications of these views of beauty for the production of the visual arts, music, and literary culture in Western religion and society.

Schedule Thu
Start Time 17:30
End Time 20:30
Minimum Enrolment 5
Maximum Enrolment 20
Enrolment Notes

Students need to contact the ICS Registrar at academic-registrar@icscanada.edu

Additional Notes

Students must follow the TST program handbook regulations relating to course deadlines for submission of course work and requests for extensions. The prima facie deadline for the completion of work in a course is the last day of the TST examination week for the semester in which the course is taken. Students and instructors are bound by the earlier of deadlines set either by the instructor or TST. Where the policy of the affiliate college, in relation to courses listed in the TST Course Catalogue, differ from TST policies, the policy of TST will apply.

Teaching Method
Seminars
Means of Evaluation
Other
Previously Offered Fall 2015
Currently Offered Fall 2019