The Concept of Beauty in Saint Augustine

St. Augustine shows through the idea of beauty as known to God. With a negative theology, he shows what a lack of nice to get the real essence of beauty: in the absence of metaphysical beauty, he explains that beauty is not the minimum graduation from God, in the absence of good morals, it shows that beauty comes not from sin, but of grace, in the absence of physical beauty, he argues that human diseases are caused by the sin of morals, as the sin stains the soul, and when the soul is tarnished, its dirt is reflected in the body. St. Augustine comes to the conclusion that beauty that he tried both, do not really think was inside it, with the divine order, or the presence of spark of God within him, thatcreates the beauty short.

Keywords: Absence, beauty, Search.