Beauty in Modernity
One of our professors told us that the powerful tool for capturing the attention of the people nowadays is beauty. It is evident nowadays that the trends of the young people nowadays has something to do with aesthetics. In Filipino terms, we say it as “estetik”, whenever we describe someone or something as attractive or beautiful. It's a compliment that captures the essence of aesthetic appeal. I think it is more relevant at the moment how this “estetik” affects the way we perceive modernity in light of society and the Church at large. Beauty has long occupied a central place in philosophy and theology as a mode of encountering truth and reality. In classical and medieval thought, beauty was inseparable from goodness and truth, understood not merely as aesthetic pleasure but as a disclosure of being itself. Yet modernity has witnessed a profound crisis in the understanding of beauty. Through suspicion and reductionism modes of existence, beauty has increasingly been ...
