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The Beautiful and the Sublime: How to Make Art that Leads to God | Professor Patrick Callahan

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The Distinction Between Practical Prudence and Understanding the Beautiful

This chapter delves into the difference between practical prudence and understanding the beautiful, emphasizing the role of intelligence in the latter. The discussion also explores the connection between desire, art, and the awakening of deeper desires within us, and concludes with an examination of the blending of Chaucer and Dante's works as an example of goodness, truth, beauty, and sublimity.

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