vol. 1 núm. 1 (1998)

This article alludes to the platonic tradition of ethics and art unity. It is not in agreement with the opposers of this idea, as writer Oscar Wilde, marxist thinkers Luckács and Brecht, and Matthew Amold, who suggest that art supplants religion. The author's view is based on examples extracted, among others, from Tolstoy, Dostoievski, Bécquer and Holderlin. He insists that art, as ethics, helps to rediscover the essence of life, truth, novelty and, above, all, creates astonishment in a process that conveys to God's adoration.