![]() When teaching, I often used a slide of a detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens showing Plato and Aristotle to emphasize that philosophy is an ongoing dialogue. Raphael shows Plato and Aristotle relishing their debate, for their disagreements, though profound, are undergirded with a deeper common ground of hope-the hope that philosophical disputation can lead to fuller understanding and converge on truth. Aristotle argued that the very world that Plato thought unreal is the reality that matters most to us. He points upward, gesturing toward perfect, eternal, immaterial, unchanging Reality.Īristotle, carrying his Nicomachean Ethics, points his extended arm in front of him toward the world humans inhabit and know through our senses. Plato carries his Timaeus, one of the many books in which he says the temporal world is always perishing and thus less than fully real. In the painting’s focal center, Raphael shows Plato and Aristotle striding toward the viewer as they argue. ![]() ![]() Visually, The School of Athens presents philosophy as a large-scale communal enterprise carried on within a vastly larger world. Raphael’s homage to classical philosophy puts humans in their place-central, but dwarfed by the context. For me, the room functions as a compelling visual counterargument to what my Baptist upbringing and academic training had both assumed about the triviality of human imagination and the irreconcilability of Christianity with philosophy. Painted archways link the four frescoes into a visual whole which depicts reason, revelation, and imagination as collaborators-a conviction shared by most educated Christians for millennia. Literature and law face one another on the room’s shorter walls. Its most famous fresco is The School of Athens, which takes up the long wall across from Raphael’s tribute to theology. Now thousands of tourists pass through it, giving Raphael’s frescoes only a passing glance. The room was designed as a papal library where frequenters would read and reflect as their imaginations were saturated with its images. That hunger is no small part of why the Room of the Segnatura struck me forcefully when I first visited the Vatican in my late 40s. Share which images you liked the most and attach your coloring results.Read our latest issue or browse back issues. We would be very pleased if you leave your comments about the coloring pages on this page. Color your favorite characters, create unique looks and designs for crewmates and impostors, and have a blast! Among Us Coloring Pages for Everyone!Ĭoloring pages based on the video game Among Us are a great opportunity to have fun alone or with friends. In case of suspicions, the innocent astronauts hold a vote, and the player with the most votes can be thrown into open space. The goal of the impostors is to kill all regular players before they finish the tasks on the spaceship, remaining unnoticed until the end. The goal of the innocents is to complete all tasks on the map before the cunning impostors kill the last one of them or to identify all villains on the ship and eject them. Depending on the settings, there are several impostors in the game, while the rest are either innocent or survivors. The action takes place on the territory of a spaceship, where all players gather. ![]() The principle of the computer game Among Us is quite simple, and the gameplay, one might say, is based on the beloved “Mafia” game. ![]()
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