The Age of Reason saw a rise in an interest in beauty as a philosophical subject. For example, Scottish philosopher Francis Hutcheson argued that beauty is “unity in variety and variety in unity”. He wrote that beauty was neither purely subjective nor purely objective—it could be understood not as “any Quality supposed to be in the Object
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