Beauty
Beauty is by excellence a virtue of the present.
It does not depend on:
- past:
- the manner in which it was achieved
- future:
- the end result
Beauty is part of the First Trinity and is not an atomic virtue. The components are all virtues, but mainly:
- Goodness
- sudden Understanding
- Harmony
- of proportion: in painting, architecture
- of frequency: in music
- Temperance
- control of animal reflexes
- Fortitude
- Fitness, Performance in Sport
- Abundance
- sexual Beauty
Types
Beauty has 2 main types:
- of Time concepts: of verb, process, transformation, transaction
- of Space concepts: of noun, eternity, identity
Attributes
- it accepts separation from its greater context
- surprising, marvelous
Time-like
- independent of space (does not have a space)
- independent of past or future (it can be separated from the time context)
Space-like
- independent of time (does not have a time) when about eternity or identity
- it does not depend on its location (it can be separated from the spatial context)