St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
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+ What is beauty? “…beauty relates to the cognitive faculty; forbeautiful things are those which please whenseen. Hence, beauty consists in due proportion; forthe senses delight in duly proportioned, as in whatis after their own kind-because even sense is asort of reason, just as is every cognitive faculty.Now, since knowledge is by assimilation, andsimilarity relates to form, beauty properly belongsto the nature of a formal cause” [Q. 5, Art. 4].