Fr. Bradley Elliott, a professional drummer turned Dominican friar, joins the podcast to discuss his book, The Shape of the Artistic Mind: A Search for the Metaphysical Link Between Art and Morals in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Themes include:

• Man's capacity to participate in God's creative activity and governance of the world
• How human artistic activity not only imitates but enhance nature
• The combination of Aristotelian and neo-Platonic streams in St. Thomas's theory of art
• How Aristotle redeemed the notion of nature from Plato, and Plotinus redeemed the notion of imitation from Plato
• Comparing the virtue of art to the mortal and speculative virtues

Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHG6YPPG?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

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