“Wisdom – the virtue that orders all other virtues – is intrinsically linked to the imagination, and to beauty, via the theme of fittingness. The wise person perceives and participates fittingly in the ordered beauty of creation. Wisdom thus integrates the true, the good, and the beautiful. Works of art and music provide the lighting on the stage of human existence. They also cultivate the ability imaginatively to discern certain features of our situations that cannot be perceived with the physical senses. Right perception, the capacity to discern, is therefore the connecting link between aesthetics and ethics. “The capacity to see what is there ... is integrally related to the capacity to love”
The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. The excerpt is taken from an essay by K. Vanhoozer entitled ‘Beauty and the Arts’