{"id":8679,"date":"2021-02-08T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:52:46","slug":"aesthetics-and-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/firmas\/anotaciones\/estetica-y-caridad\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetics and charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lubbock\">Lord Avebury<\/a> (John Lubock, 1834-1913) was a successful banker, writer, and scientist, who coined \"Paleolithic\" and \"Neolithic,\" and wrote a remarkable book about\u00a0<em>The use of Life<\/em>\u00a0(1895), the art of living like a\u00a0<em>gentleman<\/em>. After a chapter on what to do in life, he studies the \"Tact\" in treatment, play, health, education, bookstores, patriotism, faith, charity, peace and happiness, to finish in religion (British national). It is a secular ideal of full human life, which has an aesthetic criterion, with the standards of the time, and reinforced by the impulse of \"distinction\" (Bordieu): opting for a superior living that marks borders with vulgarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the\u00a0<em>Idea of the university<\/em>\u00a0from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/recursos\/argumentos\/teologia-siglo-xx\/la-influencia-de-john-henry-newman\/\">Newman<\/a>also appears the figure of the\u00a0<em>gentleman<\/em>He was a man with a careful education, delicate treatment, cultivated intelligence and good taste in everything that goes along with life. But in lecture 7 he studies the differences with Christian ideals. Liberal education -he says- can be a help, but also an obstacle. The motive of good taste is very different from the impulse of charity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Avebury (John Lubock, 1834-1913) fue un exitoso banquero, escritor y cient\u00edfico, que acu\u00f1\u00f3 \u00abPaleol\u00edtico\u201d y \u201cNeol\u00edtico\u201d, y escribi\u00f3 un notable libro sobre\u00a0The use of Life\u00a0(1895), el arte de vivir como un\u00a0gentleman. Despu\u00e9s de un cap\u00edtulo sobre qu\u00e9 hacer en la vida, estudia el \u201cTacto\u201d en el trato, el juego, la salud, la educaci\u00f3n, las [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[585,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anotaciones","category-firmas","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}