The Sense of Beauty by George Santayana -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS Introduction to the Transaction Edition Preface Introduction Part I. The Nature of Beauty

Part II. The Materials of Beauty

§ 12. All human functions may contribute to the sense of beauty § 13. The influence of the passion of love § 14. Social instincts and their æsthetic influence § 15. The lower senses § 16. Sound § 17. Colour § 18. Materials surveyed

Part III. Form

§ 19. There is a beauty of form § 20. Physiology of the perception of form § 21. Values of geometrical figures § 22. Symmetry § 23. Form the unity of a manifold § 24. Multiplicity in uniformity § 25. Example of the stars § 26. Defects of pure multiplicity § 27. Æsthetics of democracy § 28. Values of types and values of examples § 29. Origin of types § 30. The average modified in the direction of pleasure § 31. Are all things beautiful? § 32. Effects of indeterminate form § 33. Example of landscape § 34. Extensions to objects usually not regarded aesthetically § 35. Further dangers of indeterminateness § 36. The illusion of infinite perfection § 37. Organized nature the source of apperceptive for § 38. Utility the principle of organization in nature § 39. The relation of utility to beauty § 40. Utility the principle of organization in the arts § 41. Form and adventitious ornament § 42. Form in words § 43. Syntactical form § 44. Literary form. The plot § 45. Character as an aesthetic form § 46. Ideal characters § 47. The religious imagination

Part IV. Expression

§ 48. Expression defined § 49. The associative process § 50. Kinds of value in the second term § 51. Æsthetic value in the second term § 52. Practical value in the same § 53. Cost as an element of effect § 54. The expression of economy and fitness § 55. The authority of morals over aesthetics § 56. Negative values in the second term § 57. Influence of the first term in the pleasing expression of evil § 58. Mixture of other expressions, including that of truth § 59. The liberation of self § 60. The sublime independent of the expression of evil § 61. The comic § 62. Wit § 63. Humour § 64. The grotesque § 65. The possibility of finite perfection § 66. The stability of the ideal

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