Conjoining the good and the beautif

Conjoining the good and the beautiful is no longer central in discussions of architecture, cities, justice or beauty. The conjunction was framed in antiquity, when the moral and the natural sciences were interpreted within the same framework of reason and were bound to the same cosmic order. That orderly cosmos was closed but infinite. Creation was complete, and all created things were arranged within the Great Chain of Being.4 In that Great Chain, man alone was endowed with reason and free will. These burdened him with the charge "Know thyself!" and planted in his human nature the quest to know the true, do the good and make the beautiful, and he developed the doctrine of imitation for doing so. - See more at: http://www.nccsc.net/essays/beauty-and-proportionality-architecture#sthash.OzmDmURS.dpuf