Being as Beauty

Lines of an Art Theory in Antonio Rosmini

Abstract

The present article intends to show that the aesthetics of Rosmini is an important theoretical node for a regeneration of modernity and that Rosminian aesthetic perspective reveals itself to be prophetic in responding to the issues involved in the contemporary. Rosmini’s aesthetics, attesting the completeness of the relationship between the forms of being and the statute of art as an expression of participation in God by man and man’s theological and eschatological tension in life, helps to reformulate being in a dynamic way, as the contemporary thought wants, without the elimination of metaphysics.