... "originated with Kant. Where the church saw truth, beauty and goodness as interlocking features of the same reality, modernity separated them out, with truth becoming disinterested analysis, goodness a matter of utility or personal choice, and beauty mere aesthetics."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/oct/12/victorian-social-reformers-beauty-goodness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/oct/12/victorian-social-reformers-beauty-goodness