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Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

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St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)”, p.707, Cosimo, Inc.
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that good means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the beautiful is something pleasant to apprehend.