Gerald CRESTA

Original title: El acceso al Ser a través de la Belleza. Notas sobre la belleza del mundo según Buenaventura

Published in Manifestations of the Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Beauty, Being, Knowledge of Beauty, Transcendentals.

From the perspective of the transcendental concepts of being, beauty has been submitted to occupy a place that has promote discussions on its legitimacy among the other transcategorial concepts. One aspect of this debate reflects the importance of the beauty in the world as a way of privileged access to understanding of being. Along with the perfect Unity, inescapable from the platonic conception of Ideas, beauty is in the medieval scholastic an order that shines forth in the diverse multiplicity of bodies. In this way, presents a formal intrinsic quality that allows it’s to transmit to perception – sensorial and intellectual – the Intime frame which is the ontological structure of the world. This paper points some distinctive notes of that symbolic nature in the way that is considered under the Bonaventura conception of the world.