The Concept of "Beauty" in the history of Western Medieval Philosophy : Neoplatonic Tradition and its Historical Development

我们的项目旨在对新柏拉图传统影响下的西方中世纪哲学中的美的概念进行历史研究。我们分析了普罗提诺及其后代和基督教哲学家的哲学文献，阐明了“美”的美学问题。我们对它们的审美观主要有美与光的同一性、作为礼拜艺术的中世纪器物以及美的超越性的形而上学观念。因此，我们的研究对美学史和中世纪哲学史的研究具有重要意义。

Our project aims at the historical studies of the concept of beauty in western medieval philosophy under the influences of Neoplatonic tradition. We analyze philosophical literature of Plotinus and his descendants and of Christian philosophers, and make clear the aesthetic problems of "beauty." Our aesthetic viewpoints on them are on the identity between beauty and light, the medieval artifacts just as liturgical art, and the metaphysical concept of the transcendence of beauty. So, our project has significances on the historical research of aesthetics and medieval philosophy.