«About Beauty» in the Theosophy of Antonio Rosmini

Abstract

When Rosmini in his Teosofia wrote his treatise on beauty, the final draft of his conceptual system and his greatest intellectual achievements were already in place. In the chapter «Della bellezza» thanks to his ontological rootedness, he address the aesthetical issue in its theoretical depth. Analyzing the essence and the elements of beauty, the aesthetical experience is conceived by Rosmini as a subjective act grounded in its manifest objectivity, and by so doing calls into question the ontological synthesis.