This thinker defines beauty as “that which pleases when seen” in a book also containing five proofs for the existence of God. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Scholastic philosopher who wrote Summa Theologica.
ANSWER: Saint Thomas Aquinas [or Tommaso d’Aquino; prompt on Saint Thomas or Santo Tommaso]
[10m] In the Summa, Aquinas equates beauty with this concept, which is absent in the privation theory of another concept. Philosopher-kings should seek to have knowledge of the Form of this concept according to Plato.
ANSWER: goodness [accept absence of good or privation of good; accept Form of the Good]
[10h] This thinker claimed to be rid of his faith after his work on Thomas Aquinas which led him to write The Development of Medieval Aesthetics. This developer of “interpretative semiotics” was inspired by Baudrillard for an essay that analyzes Disneyland.
ANSWER: Umberto Eco
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