Contemplating God from the Mirror of the Soul. The First Level of St. Bonaventure’s Introspective Aesthetics from Its Inspiring Sources

This article seeks primarily to highlight the first level of introspective stage Saint Bonaventure’s Aesthetics, as highlighted in Chapter 3 his Itinerarium mentis Deum. According this Franciscan philosopher, if man considers three spiritual powers, memory, intelligence, and will inside soul, he be able contemplate intellectually though a mirror God one triune, because those powers are images Creator. Secondly, our attempts detect some doctrinal sources which could have inspired Bonaventure when proposing different theses that structure Aesthetics.