Editing Beauty (section)

====Pre-Socratic====
In one fragment of [[Heraclitus|Heraclitus's]] writings (''Fragment 106'') he mentions beauty, this reads: "To God all things are beautiful, good, right..."<ref>W.W. Clohesy - [http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/9145/auslegung.v13.n02.175-192.pdf?sequence=1 The Strength of the Invisible: Reflections on Heraclitus (p.177)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812213308/https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/9145/auslegung.v13.n02.175-192.pdf?sequence=1 |date=August 12, 2017 }} Auslegung Volume XIII {{ISSN|0733-4311}} [Retrieved 2015-05-12]</ref> The earliest Western theory of beauty can be found in the works of early Greek philosophers from the [[pre-Socratic]] period, such as [[Pythagoras]], who conceived of beauty as useful for a moral education of the soul.<ref name="Fistioc, M.C., review by S Naragon, Manchester College"/> He wrote of how people experience pleasure when aware of a certain type of formal situation present in reality, perceivable by sight or through the ear<ref name="J.L. Wright (2003)"/> and discovered the underlying mathematical ratios in the harmonic scales in music.<ref name="Fistioc, M.C., review by S Naragon, Manchester College"/> The [[Pythagoreanism|Pythagoreans]] conceived of the presence of beauty in universal terms, which is, as existing in a cosmological state, they observed beauty in ''the heavens''.<ref name="W Tatarkiewicz">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LS_ji6fh60IC&pg=PA102|title=History of Aesthetics|editor=J. Harrell|editor2=C. Barrett|editor3=D. Petsch|publisher=A&C Black|year=2006|isbn=0826488552|accessdate=2015-05-11|page=102|archive-date=February 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203045633/https://books.google.com/books?id=LS_ji6fh60IC&pg=PA102|url-status=live}}</ref> They saw a strong connection between [[mathematics]] and beauty. In particular, they noted that objects proportioned according to the [[golden ratio]] seemed more attractive.<ref>{{cite book|last=Seife |first=Charles |year=2000 |title=[[Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea]] |publisher=Penguin |isbn=0-14-029647-6 |page=32}}</ref>