Full Idea
Like the pleasure in friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.
Gist of Idea
The pleasure taken in beauty also aims at understanding and valuing
Source
Roger Scruton (Beauty: a very short introduction [2011], 1)
Book Reference
Scruton,Roger: 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' [OUP 2011], p.26
A Reaction
At least he is trying to pin down the way in which aesthetic pleasure is phenomenologically different from other kinds of pleasure.