March 12, 2016
BEAUTY IS NOT SUBJECTIVE:
Christ beauteous truth : Jared Zimmerer interviews Joseph Pearce (Imaginative Conservative, 3/12/16)Jared Zimmerer: Throughout your collection of essays, Beauteous Truth (St. Augustine's Press), there is a continuous message that culture and having a steeped understanding of authentic cultural approbations are of utmost importance and that Catholicism has helped shape a culture that can last. What advice would you give for others to be able to recognize those parts of culture that are worthwhile?
Joseph Pearce: True culture is a reflection of the transcendental trinity of the good, the true, and the beautiful. The authentic sign of goodness is love and its manifestation in virtue; the authenticity of the true is to be seen in its conformity to reason, properly understood as an engagement with the objective reality beyond the confines of egocentric subjectivism; the authentic sign of the beautiful is a reverence for the beauty of Creation and creativity, properly perceived in the outpouring of gratitude which is the fruit of humility.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 12, 2016 8:34 AM