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
Rationality, the source of its value, 19, 20.
Religious characters, their truth, 188.
imagination, 185 _et seq._
Rhyme, 173, 174.
Romanticism, 150.
Schopenhauer, 263.
criticised, 37,
note, on music, 69.
Scientific attitude in criticism opposed to the aesthetic, 20, 21.
Sculpture, its development, 153, 154.
Self not a primary object of interest, 39, 40.
Sensuous beauty of fundamental importance, 80, 81.
Sex, its relation to aesthetic life, 56 _et seq._
Shakespeare, 151, 174, 175;
quoted, 51, 114, 229, 237, 251.
Shelley quoted, 12, 244, 253.
Sight, its primacy in perception, 73, 74.
Size related to beauty, 123, 124.
Sky, The, its expressiveness, 8.
Social interests and their aesthetic influence, 62 _et seq._
Socrates, his utilitarian aesthetics, 157.
Sonnet, The, 173.
Sound, 68 _et seq._
Space, its metaphysical value, 66, note.
Stars, the effect analyzed, 100 _et seq._
Stendhal, 61.
Stoic Sublime, The, 241.
Straight lines, 89, 90.
Subjectivity of aesthetic values, 3,4.
Sublime, The, its independence of the expression of evil,
239 _et seq._
Sublimity, 233 _et seq._
Sybaris, 216.
Symbolists, 144.
Symmetry, 91 _et seq._
a principle of individuation, 93.
limits of its application, 95.
Syntactical form, 171 _et seq._
Tacitus, 173, 252.
Terms, the first and second terms in expression defined, 195.
influence of the first term in the pleasing expression of evil,
226 _et seq._
Theory a method of apperception, 138 _et seq._
Tragedy mitigated by beauty of form and the expression of good,
228, 229.
mitigated by the diversity of evils, 229.
mixed with comedy, 224, 225, 228.
consists in treatment not in subject, 224.
Translation necessarily inadequate, 168.
Truth, grounds of its value, 22, 23.
Truth, mixture of the expression of truth with that of evil,
228 _et seq._
Types, their origin, 116 _et seq._
their value and that of examples, 112 _et seq._
Ugly, The, not a cause of pain, 25.
Universality not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 40 _et seq._
Utility the principle of organization in nature, 155 _et seq._
its relation to beauty, 157 _et seq._
the principle of organization in the arts, 160 _et seq._
Value, aesthetic value in the second term of expression, 205 _et
seq._
all in one sense aesthetic, 28 _et seq._
physical, practical, and negative transformed into aesthetic,
201 _et seq._
Venus of Milo, 165, note.
Virgin Mary, The, 189, 190.
Whitman, 112.
Wit, 250 _et seq._
Words, 167 _et seq._
Wordsworth quoted, 105.
Work and play, 25 _et seq._
Xenophon quoted, 123.
his _Symposium,_ 157.
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