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1 online resource (xxii, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- The Nature of Beauty -- The philosophy of beauty is a theory of values -- Preference is ultimately irrational -- Contrast between moral and aesthetic values -- Work and play -- All values are in one sense aesthetic -- Aesthetic consecration of general principles -- Contrast of aesthetic and physical pleasures -- The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its disinterestedness -- The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its universality -- The differentia of aesthetic pleasure: its objectification -- The definition of beauty -- The Materials of Beauty -- All human functions may contribute to the sense of beauty -- The influence of the passion of love -- Social instincts and their aesthetic influence -- The lower senses -- Sound -- Colour -- Materials surveyed -- Form -- There is a beauty of form -- Physiology of the perception of form -- Values of geometrical figures -- Symmetry -- Form the unity of a manifold -- Multiplicity in uniformity -- Example of the stars -- Defects of pure multiplicity -- Aesthetics of democracy -- Values of types and values of examples -- Origin of types -- The average modified in the direction of pleasure -- Are all things beautiful? -- Effects of indeterminate form -- Example of landscape -- Extensions to objects usually not regarded aesthetically -- Further dangers of indeterminateness -- The illusion of infinite perfection -- Organized nature the source of apperceptive forms -- Utility the principle of organization in nature -- The relation of utility to beauty -- Utility the principle of organization in the arts -- Form and adventitious ornament -- Form in words -- Syntactical form -- Literary form. The plot -- Character as an aesthetic form -- Ideal characters -- The religious imagination -- Expression -- Expression defined -- The associative process -- Kinds of value in the second term -- Aesthetic value in the second term -- Practical value in the same -- Cost as an element of effect -- The expression of economy and fitness -- The authority of morals over aesthetics -- Negative values in the second term -- Influence of the first term in the pleasing expression of evil -- Mixture of other expressions including that of truth -- The liberation of self -- The sublime independent of the expression of evil -- The comic -- Wit -- Humour -- The grotesque -- The possibility of finite perfection -- The stability of the ideal |
| Summary |
A collection of lectures in which George Santayana discusses why, when, and how beauty appears |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. With new introduction |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2012 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351302807 |
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1351302809 |
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