The Sense of BeautyCosimo, Inc., 1 giu 2004 - 288 pagine George Santayana, poet, philosopher, and literary and cultural critic, was one of the key figures in classical western philosophy. He was a man before his time . . . before the popularization of naturalism, multiculturalism, philosophy as literature, and spirituality without being a religious believer. "The Sense of Beauty" is a primary source for the study of aesthetics. Critics have described it as a milestone in aesthetic theory. Santayana's writings are thematically full of the relationships between literature, art, religion, and philosophy. |
Sommario
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Form the unity of a manifold 24 Multiplicity in uniformity 25 Example of the stars | 100 |
Defects of pure multiplicity | 106 |
27 Esthetics of democracy | 110 |
Values of types and values of examples | 112 |
Origin of types | 116 |
The average modified in the direction of pleasure | 121 |
Are all things beautiful? | 126 |
Effects of indeterminate form 33 Example of landscape | 133 |
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Syntactical form | 43 |
its objectification | 44 |
Character as an æsthetic form | 45 |
Ideal characters | 46 |
The religious imagination PART IV | 47 |
Expression defined | 48 |
The definition of beauty | 49 |
Kinds of value in the second term | 50 |
Esthetic value in the second term | 51 |
Practical value in the same | 52 |
THE MATERIALS OF BEAUTY 12 All human functions may contribute to the sense of beauty 13 The influence of the passion of love | 53 |
The lower senses | 65 |
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18 Materials surveyed | 76 |
FORM 19 There is a beauty of form | 82 |
Physiology of the perception of form 21 Values of geometrical figures | 88 |
Symmetry | 91 |
Extensions to objects usually not regarded æsthetically | 138 |
Further dangers of indeterminateness 36 The illusion of infinite perfection | 151 |
Organized nature the source of appercep tive forms | 152 |
Utility the principle of organization | 160 |
The authority of morals over æsthetics 56 Negative values in the second term 57 Influence of the first term in the pleasing expression of evil | 192 |
Mixture of other expressions including that of truth | 228 |
The liberation of self | 233 |
The sublime independent of the expression of evil | 236 |
The comic 233 239 | 245 |
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Humour | 247 |
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The grotesque | 256 |
The possibility of finite perfection 66 The stability of the ideal 256 | 258 |
CONCLUSION 266270 | 266 |
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The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana Visualizzazione completa - 1896 |
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