Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
Morality, Greek, an artistic balance of light and shade, 260;
a matter of taste, 263;
the æsthetic quality of, evidenced by language, 263, 264;
Shaftesbury’s views on, 264-66;
the influence of Shaftesbury on our modern, 266, 267;
imagination in, 272;
instinctive, according to Hutcheson, 274;
conception of, as an art, does not lack seriousness, 276;
the æsthetic view of, advocated by Catholics, 276 _n._;
the æsthetic view of, repugnant to two classes of minds, 280-82;
indefiniteness of criterion of, an advantage, 282, 283;
justification of æsthetic conception of, 283, 284;
flexible and inflexible, illustrated by Jesuits and Pascal, 303-05;
art the reality of, 314;
æsthetic, of the Greeks, 316-18;
the antinomy between morals and, 319;
a restraint placed upon the possessive instinct, 338-40;
to be replaced by æsthetic instinct, 340, 341;
æsthetic instinct has the character of, 346.
Morals, dancing as, 61, 63, 66;
books on, 244;
defined, 245;
means _custom_, 245;
Plotinus’s conception of, 250-52;
as art, views of the Greeks and the Romans on, differ, 252;
Hebrews never conceived of the art of, 253;
as art, modern conception of, 253;
the modern feeling about, is Jewish and Roman, 253;
Kant’s idea of the art of, 253, 254;
formed by instinct, tradition and reason, 254-59;
Greek, have come to modern world through Shaftesbury, 267;
the æsthetic attitude possible for spectator of, 270;
art and æsthetics to be kept apart in, 314, 315, 325-28;
a species of the genus art, 316;
the antinomy between morality and, 319;
philosophers have failed to see that it is an art, 324.
_Morisco_, the, 49 _n._
Mozart, Wolfgang, his interest in dancing, 62.
Müller-Freienfels, Richard, two kinds of æsthetic contemplation defined
by, 331.
Multatuli, quoted on the source of curiosity, 112.
Music, and ceremony, 24-26;
and acting, and poetry, 36;
and singing, and dancing, their relation, 62;
a science or art, 68;
discovery of Pythagoras in, 74;
philosophy the noblest and best, 81 _n._;
the most abstract, the most nearly mathematical of the arts, 135;
of style, 163, 164;
of philosophy and religion, 179.
Musical forms, evolved from similar dances, 62.
Musical instruments, 53, 54.
Musset, Alfred de, his _Confession d’un Enfant du Siècle_, 144.
Mysteries, the Eleusinian, 240-43.
Mystic, the genuine, 202;
Lao-tze, the earliest great, 204.
Mystics, the great, 236, 237.
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