Full Idea
The status of beauty as an ultimate value is questionable, in the way that the status of truth and goodness are not.
Gist of Idea
Beauty (unlike truth and goodness) is questionable as an ultimate value
Source
Roger Scruton (Beauty: a very short introduction [2011], 1)
Book Reference
Scruton,Roger: 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' [OUP 2011], p.3
A Reaction
We suspect that a love of beauty may be a bit parochial, where it is hard to conceive of living creatures anywhere in the cosmos who don't value the other two.