Title of article :
Investigating and Exploring Beauty Markers in Pseudo Dionysus' Works Focusing on Scholars' Views
Author/Authors :
Gharib Garkani, Parvaneh Department of Philosophy - Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science - Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran , Baniardalan, Esmaeil Department of Art Research - Faculty of Theoretical Sciences and High Art Studies - University of Art, Tehran, Iran , Mostafavi, Shamsolmoloke Department of Philosophy - Faculty of Humanities - Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Aesthetics term has been used for the first time by philosopher Alexander Baumgarten in 18th
century which is referred to cognition through senses and sensory sciences. Although Mediaeval
philosophic thought in west ignorance has been established based on Rome and Greek philosophy
and has been formed by Christianity and has deep association with it, it is necessary to access to
Old Testament books and ancient philosophers’ thought to investigate aesthetics, so in order to
achieve this goal scholars’ views in different books have been used in this study. The present study
extracts and verifies various aesthetic markers in the works of pseudo Dionysus and uses mixed
qualitative and quantitative methods. Snowball sampling method employed to select scholars for
interview and quantitative method conducted by Morgan Table. Books have been selected
purposefully to extract elements, ATLASTI software applied to extract diagram in qualitative
method and SPSS software also employed in quantitative method to do the related calculations.
Results showed that 34 markers are extracted including light, proportion, being bright, absence of
excess and…which in qualitative results ultra-beauty, coma, the best beneficence and… are the
most repeated ones, but in quantitative sources integrity, creativity, ultra-beauty, absence of excess,
harmonious, perfection, source and destination of everything and light have the most proportion.
Keywords :
Aesthetic Elements , Dionysus , Mixed Method , Old Testament Books
Journal title :
International Journal of Applied Arts Studies (IJAPAS)