Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

@gunter wrote:

You just can’t link beauty with faith, or goodness, beauty is a set of conventions that a culture invents, not some kind of fundamental truth.

Gunter!

The problem is that the neo-Platonist tradition does make this connection – thus asserting one of the major postulates of the Western tradition. Its idealism is in direct contrast with the materialism of Aristotle (which could be pressed to support the view taken in the quotation above). The same tension is often repeated in the history of western philosophy including the opposition of the systems of Berkley and Hume and beyond. On of the more comprehensive statements of the connection is to be found in Frederick Wilhelm Scheller’s Philosophie der Kunst published in 1802 which once again returns to the medieval ideals of Pulcheritudo and Splendor Dei.

P.S. As for the application of the theory to Victor Hugo’s creation, might one perhaps suggest Charles Baudelaire !