El horizonte estético del hombre medieval. La perspectiva tomista

Abstract

To get approximative idea of the aesthetical horizon of the mediaeval man one has to refer to the relation between aesthetics and culture, to its subjected anthropology and to the various ground in wich man discovers beauty. The mediaeval man is related with beauty in the objective order of the realities of the world, in the moulding of one's personality through virtues and in the field of useful and beautiful a11s. Thomas Aquinas is an excellent guide for discovering the aesthetical horizon of the mediaeval man. The article shows the stages of this aesthetical course in the objective, subjective and projective world. The supremacy conforms with the attainment of beauty in the human being through acquisition of virtues, particulary those of contemplative life, owing to wich the moral and artistical ones adjust.