قراءة كتاب The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory

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The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory

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[Note: for this online edition I have moved the Table of Contents to the beginning of the text and slightly modified it to conform with the online format. I have also made one spelling change: "ominiscient intelligence" to "omniscient intelligence".]

THE SENSE OF BEAUTY

BEING THE OUTLINES OF AESTHETIC THEORY

GEORGE SANTAYANA

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

	Preface
	Introduction — The Methods of Aesthetics	1-13

	Part I. — The Nature of Beauty
§ 1.	The philosophy of beauty is a theory of values	14
§ 2.	Preference is ultimately irrational	18
§ 3.	Contrast between moral and aesthetic values	28
§ 4.	Work and play	25
§ 5.	All values are in one sense aesthetic	28
§ 6.	Aesthetic consecration of general principles	31
§ 7.	Contrast of aesthetic and physical pleasures	35
§ 8.	The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its disinterestedness	37
§ 9.	The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its universality	40
§ 10.	The differential of aesthetic pleasure: its objectification	44
§ 11.	The definition of beauty	49

	Part II. — The Materials of Beauty
§ 12.	All human functions may contribute to the sense of beauty	53
§ 13.	The influence of the passion of love	56
§ 14.	Social instincts and their aesthetic influence	62
§ 15.	The lower senses	65
§ 16.	Sound	68
§ 17.	Colour	72
§ 18.	Materials surveyed	76

	Part III. — Form
§ 19.	There is a beauty of form	82
§ 20.	Physiology of the perception of form	85
§ 21.	Values of geometrical figures	88
§ 22.	Symmetry	91
§ 23.	Form the unity of a manifold

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