What Philosophers think about beauty?

Beauty, traditionally, was among the ultimate values along with goodness, truth and justice.

1. St. Augustine asked whether things were beautiful because it gave delight, or whether it gave delight because it was beautiful.

2. Plato connected beauty to love and desire.

3. Aristotle asserted that the chief forms of beauty are order, symmetry, and definiteness.

4. David Hume - Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

5. Francis Hutcheson - the perception of beauty does depend on the external sense of sight.