The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic TheorySantayana, George
Philosophy
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
Santayana, George
Aesthetics
Hamlet, 179.
Happiness and aesthetic interest, 63, 65.
Health a condition of aesthetic life, 54.
Hedonism opposed by the moral sense, 23, 24.
History an imaginative thing, 141, 142.
Home as a social and as an aesthetic idea, 64.
Homer, 171.
his aesthetic quality, 205, 206.
his epithets, 179.
Horace, quoted, 172.
Humour, 253 _et seq._
Ideals are modified averages, 121 _et seq._
immanent in human nature, 262.
stable, 263 _et seq._
Imagination has a universal creative function, 190, 191.
and sense alternately active, 55, 56.
Impression distinguished from expression, 84, 85.
Impressionism in painting, 134, 136.
incongruity not what pleases in the comic, 247 _et seq._
Indeterminate organizational _et seq._
Infinite beauty, the idea impossible, 148 _et seq._
Inspiration, 252, 253.
Kalokagathia, 31.
Kant, 105.
Keats, quoted, 67, 105, 181, 264.
King Lear, 229.
Kipling, R., quoted, 68.
Landscape, 133 _et seq._
with figures, 135, 136.
Liberation of self, 233 _et seq._
Love, influence of the passion, 56 _et seq._
Lowell, J. R., quoted, 148.
Lower senses, 65 _et seq._
Lucretius, quoted, 172.
on the sublime, 236.
Maps, 209, 210.
Material beauty most easily appreciated, 78 _et seq._
its effect the fundamental one, 78.
Materials of beauty surveyed, 76 _et seq._
Methods in aesthetics, 5.
Michael Angelo, 182.
Miser's fallacy, its parallel in morals and aesthetics, 31, 32.
Modern languages inferior to the ancient, 173, 174.
Moliere, 174; quoted, 20.
Monarchy, its imaginative value, 34, 35.
Moral and aesthetic values, 23 _et seq._
the authority of morals over aesthetics, 218 _et seq._
Morality and utility jealous of art, 216, 217.
Multiplicity in uniformity, 97 _et seq._
its defects, 106 _et seq._
Musset, Alfred de, quoted, 170, 226.
Mysticism in aesthetics, 126 _et seq._
Naturalism, the ground of its value, 21.
Nature, its organization the source of apperceptive forms,
152 _et seq._
the love of it among the ancients, 137, 138.
New York, the plan of the streets, 95.
Nouns, idea of a language without them, 171.
Objectification the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 44 _et seq._
Ornament and form, 63 _et seq._
Othello, 237.
Ovid, quoted, 149.
Pantheism, its contradictions, 242, 243.
Perception, the psychological theory of it, 45 _et seq._
Perfection, illusion of infinite, 146 _et seq._
possibility of finite, 258 _et seq._
Physical pleasure distinguished from aesthetic, 35 _et seq._
Physiology of the perception of form, 85 _et seq._
Picturesqueness contrasted with symmetry, 92.
Platonic ideas useless in explaining types, 117, 118.
Platonic intuitions, their nature and value, 8 _et seq._
Platonists, 159.
Plot, The, 174 _et seq._
Preference ultimately irrational, 18 _et seq._
necessary to value, 17, 18.
Principles consecrated aesthetically, 31 _et seq._
Purity, The aesthetic principle of, 70 _et seq._
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