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CRESTA, Gerald. Bonaventure: education for beauty in the knowledge of the world and of God. Acta Scientiarum. Education [online]. 2014, vol.36, n.01, pp.87-92. ISSN 2178-5201.

In the Middle Ages, the increasing autonomy on the nature of Beauty may be defined by three aspects that underscore the speculative approach on the concept: first, the Neoplatonic root in strict relationship with the Good (kalon); second, the Augustinian approach with its relationship between species and order, the factors that shine in created Beauty from the original divine source; third, the interpretation that predominated within Scholasticism and which gave to Beauty its transcendental beauty and established an intellectual distinction between the pulchrum and the bonum. Current research analyzes St Bonaventure´s position on the three perspectives and foregrounds the elaboration of the concept as from ‘light’ as a substantial form which traces a transcendental pedagogical scheme in which concepts and light bring accession modes to the knowledge of the world and its divine causal origin.

Palabras clave : Neo-Platonism; Metaphysics; Light; Transcendence.

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