Nov 30, 2023
Fr. Bradley Elliott, a professional drummer turned Dominican
friar, joins the podcast to discuss his book, The Shape of the
Artistic Mind: A Search for the Metaphysical Link Between Art and
Morals in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Themes include:
- Man’s capacity to participate in God’s creative activity and
governance of the world - How human artistic activity not only imitates but enhance
nature - The combination of Aristotelian and neo-Platonic streams in St.
Thomas’s theory of art - How Aristotle redeemed the notion of nature from Plato, and
Plotinus redeemed the notion of imitation from Plato - Comparing the virtue of art to the mortal and speculative
virtues
