Aug 12, 2022
In a current video on the
Pints with Aquinas
channel, Gregory Pine, O.P. voiced
his concern that mass leisure, notably music and films,
is commonly an impediment to attaining the heavenly finish of contemplation
for which we’re made. What’s noteworthy is that not like the
typical Catholic commentary on popular culture, Fr. Pine doesn’t focus
a lot on the ethical content material of music and films as how their very
kind impacts us bodily, psychologically and spiritually.
On this dialogue impressed by
Fr. Pine’s factors, host Thomas Mirus and filmmaker Nathan Douglas
specify some parts of music and movie that are obstacles to the
contemplative life, but in addition counsel how, somewhat than merely
eschewing music and films, we are able to have interaction with higher artwork in a
deeper approach which serves the contemplative finish of man.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
6:31 Fr. Pine video
recap
11:08 Dangers of treating media as
“junk meals” somewhat than demanding higher media
14:44 Cultivating openness to
extra inventive movies
17:31 Discursive reasoning is
not the best mode of contemplation
20:26 Music is essentially the most merely
contemplative artwork kind
22:58 The relation of movie to
actuality
25:13 Promoting and glossiness
in trendy cinema
29:38 Downside with placing
Catholic content material into Hollywood kinds
31:28 A movie’s modifying rhythm
can hinder contemplation
38:24 Studying intuitively to
inform hackwork from good craft
42:15 Rhythmic pleasure
doesn’t equal mediocrity
46:23 Conclusion of movie
dialogue
48:02 Making use of Augustine’s
idea of evil as privation to artwork
49:34 The need of each
decrease and better types of music
55:46 In what sense ought to
Catholics “have interaction with popular culture”?
59:33 Pop music dominated by
computer systems, centered on lyrics, lack of melody
1:07:53 The private aspect in
artwork
1:12:08 Music, the senses, and
contemplation past phrases
1:18:22 Music’s stimulation of
the physique
1:22:45 Utilizing music to indulge
feelings
1:27:09 Can music be
“immoral”?
1:32:06 Mistaking sluggish for good
in movie
1:34:11 Educating the devoted
for inventive depth
1:43:50 Can sense pictures serve
the religious life?
1:49:18 What music communicates
about actuality
1:56:20 There’s no components for
magnificence
2:01:08 Easy receptivity to
God’s magnificence
2:03:54 Really helpful assets
Sources:
Fr. Gregory Pine, “I finished
listening to music.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVh4rHubNOc
Elizabeth-Paule Labat,
The Track That I Am: On the
Thriller of Music
https://litpress.org/Merchandise/MW040P/The-Track-That-I-Am
Etienne Gilson,
The Arts of the
Stunning
https://www.amazon.com/Arts-Stunning-Scholarly-Etienne-Gilson/dp/1564782506
Standards: The Catholic Movie
Podcast
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/class/standards
CCP #126: How Charlie Parker’s
Music Modified My Life
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/126-how-charlie-parker-changed-my-life
CCP #28: An Introduction to
Maritain’s Poetic Philosophy w/ Samuel Hazo
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-28-introduction-to-maritains-poetic-philosophy-samuel-hazo
Nathan Douglas,
The Vocation of
Cinema https://vocationofcinema.substack.com
Fr. Pine’s lecture on literature referenced by
Nathan https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/literature-as-philosophy-fr-gregory-pine-op
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