The Sense of BeautyCourier Corporation, 31/08/2012 - 192 páginas It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato. It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as works on aesthetics so often are, but is itself a fascinating document: as much a revelation of the beauty of language as of the concept of beauty. |
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Symmetry | 22 |
modified in the direction of 76 79 82 83 regarded 888888 86 30 The average pleasure | 76 |
Are all things beautiful? | 79 |
Effects of indeterminate organization | 82 |
Example of landscape | 83 |
Extensions to objects usually not æsthetically | 86 |
Further dangers of indeterminateness | 88 |
Illusion of infinite perfection | 90 |
Organized nature the source of apperceptive forms example of sculpture | 94 |
Esthetic and physical pleasure 3 | 23 |
Multiplicity in uniformity | 24 |
Example of the stars | 25 |
its 228 28 31 8 The differentia of æsthetic pleasure not disinterestedness 9 The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not universality | 26 |
Esthetics of democracy | 27 |
Values of types and values of examples | 28 |
Origin of types | 29 |
objectification | 30 |
The definition of beauty | 31 |
THE MATERIALS OF BEAUTY its its 12 All human functions may contribute to the sense of beauty | 35 |
The influence of the passion of love 35 | 37 |
Social instincts and their æsthetic influence | 40 |
Sound 15 The lower senses | 44 |
Colour | 46 |
Materials surveyed | 48 |
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Utility the principle of organization in nature | 96 |
The relation of utility to beauty | 97 |
Utility the principle of organization in the arts | 99 |
Form and adventitious ornament | 101 |
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Syntactical form | 105 |
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Character as an æsthetic form 46 Ideal characters | 109 |
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The religious imagination | 114 |
EXPRESSION 48 Expression defined | 119 |
The sublime independent of the expression | 146 |
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The stability of the ideal | 160 |
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