Moral boundaries of beauty
Moral boundaries of beauty

Summary/Abstract: Reflection on beauty should also consider the moral aspects, and therefore the relationship to good. The relationship between beauty and good indicates Hebrew and Greek terminology, which is the same word (heb., tob, gr. kalos, agathos) that determines both beauty and good. In the Aristotelian-Thomistic concept every being is beautiful and also good because it has its source in God’s creative action. Due to the ongoing today subjectivisation and relativism of beauty it should be emphasized that this title is worth only what reflects eternal beauty. Therefore, not everything is beautiful what a man creates and what as such is considered. Beautiful is what is good and what leads to goodness. Beyond this limit imposed by the good exists only apparent beauty, and even ugliness, which is sometimes called beauty, but it is not. Striving toward eternal beauty, creating beauty within and around each other, growing up in beauty is a moral duty of a man.

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