With whom is the concept of "claritas" associated ?
Correct answer: A. Thomas Aquinas
- A. Thomas Aquinas
- B. Augusta Gregory
- C. Charles Parnell
- D. Ezra Pound
Explanation
Claritas is one of the qualities Thomas Aquinas associates with beauty, alongside integrity and proportion. Joyce later drew on this Thomistic idea in his discussions of aesthetic experience.
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