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How Does Art Imitate Nature? | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

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The Art of the Beautiful

For Aquinas beauty is the combination of the two transcendentals of the good and the true. Animals make tools such as nests, honeycums and spiderwits. Some of them have even learned to use new tools beyond me instinct should behave. Chimpanzee for example can learn how to use a stick to get to bananas. Child children imitate the use of tools independently from any other benefit but rather in a disinterested way.

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