ABOUT THE CLASS
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
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Unpack Aristotle’s definition of art as a mimêsis, an imitation or representation of human beings in action that produces a “cognitive delight” in the spectator or reader
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How St. Thomas Aquinas’ definition of beauty implies that the beautiful (like truth and goodness) transcends the material
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How the narrative or storytelling arts accord with our definition of both art and the Catholic Imagination
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How the visual arts are best understood by analogy to the narrative arts

MEET YOUR PROFESSOR
Dr. Daniel McInerny received his B.A. degree in English from the University of Notre Dame before going on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Among his other academic appointments, from 2003 to 2009 he was an associate director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. He joined the philosophy department at Christendom in the fall of 2019. His scholarly work focuses on questions at the intersection of art and the moral life.
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