
What Secondary Beauty Is—and Why It Is Not True Virtue | Jonathan Edwards
Deep Dive into The Nature of True Virtue by Jonathan Edwards - Concerning the Secondary and Inferior Kind of BeautyJonathan Edwards distinguishes between two distinct types of beauty: primary or true beauty, and secondary or natural beauty. Primary beauty is the true beauty of moral agents, consisting of a cordial agreement, union of mind, or benevolent consent of being to being. This spiritual and divine beauty fundamentally represents true virtue.In contrast, secondary beauty is an inferior form found in both material and immaterial things. It consists of mutual agreement, uniformity…
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