The Sense of Beauty

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Cosimo, 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.
 

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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

disinterestedness 38
14
Sound
16
Colour
17
Syntactical form
43
its objectification
44
Character as an ęsthetic 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
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PAGE
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18 Materials surveyed
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FORM 19 There is a beauty of form
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Physiology of the perception of form 21 Values of geometrical figures
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Symmetry
91
Extensions to objects usually not regarded ęsthetically
138
Further dangers of indeterminateness 36 The illusion of infinite perfection
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Organized nature the source of appercep tive forms
152
Utility the principle of organization
160
The authority of morals over ęsthetics 56 Negative values in the second term 57 Influence of the first term in the pleasing expression of evil
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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
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Humour
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The grotesque
256
The possibility of finite perfection 66 The stability of the ideal 256
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CONCLUSION 266270
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INDEX 271275
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The relation of utility to beauty
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