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109: Would Aquinas listen to Metallica? (What makes music beautiful), With Fr. Gregory Pine

Pints With Aquinas

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Clarity or Radiance: The Beauty of Nature

A beautiful thing clearly radiates intelligibility, which is to say that the logic of its inner being impresses itself upon the mind of the perceiver. So there's a kind of communication that goes between the artisan and the critic or the one who gazes upon the thing made. This is especially true or comes out most powerfully in created things in things that have God as their cause. And it leads you to marvel at a kind of without getting into any debate about evolutionary biology or intelligence design.

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