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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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The Three Properties of All Beautiful Things

Thomas Aquinas says that there are three properties of all beautiful things. The first he calls integrity, or we could just say wholeness. The next he calls something like consonants or proportionality. And then the third and final is clarity. We could also say radiance. So basically here we understand that its dimensions should suitably correspond to other physical objects as well as to a kind of ideal so that it should be harmonious.

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