The aestetics of Pierre Nicole

Abstract

This article is about an uninvestigated text by a jansenist author, Pierre Nicole, that is speaking about a esthetical questions. This text represents the moment of crystallization of tradition before her decisive renovation. Pierre Nicole reasons about the idea of beauty using traditional concepts such as reason, nature, truth inherited from the platonism but also from the aestetics of classicism. At the same time it appears that he becomes a precursor of the aestetical reflections of the 18th century emphasizing that the beauty is a fonction of a thing but also of the human nature.