Franciscan John
Duns Scotus says that when the one, and the true, and the good are operating in
unity, whatever is happening will always also be beautiful! This is his
de facto definition of beauty: the harmony between unity, truth, and goodness.
When you can see all three, or even one, you will always be delighted. Whenever
naked being (always united, somehow true, and somehow good) shows itself, I will
have the ability to see there’s something beautiful about it, too, even though
it might be broken, or poor, or sad, or suffering. Scotus was merely making a
grounding philosophy out of Francis' own love of lepers, the marginalized, and
the poor—whom he found "beautiful"!
Beauty is
experienced precisely in our ability to hold together the oneness, the
truthfulness, and the goodness of things—despite all the seeming contrary
evidence (which is always there!).
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