The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic TheoryC. Scribner's Sons, 1986 - 275 Seiten "This work contains the chief ideas gathered together for a course of lectures on the theory and history of aesthetics given at Harvard College from 1892 to 1895. The only originality the author claims is that which may result from the attempt to put together the scattered commonplaces of criticism into a system, under the inspiration of a naturalistic psychology. His effort throughout has been to recall those fundamental aesthetic feelings the orderly extension of which yields sanity of judgment and distinction of taste"--(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved). |
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INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PART | 13 |
Contrast Between Moral and Esthetic Values | 19 |
Urheberrecht | |
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abstract æsthetic value appeal apperception appreciation artist asso associations attained attention becomes ception character charm colour comic conceive consciousness constitute contemplation definite delight direct distinction effect elements emotion environment essence ESTHETIC evil existence experience expression external fact faculties fancy feel function GEORGE SANTAYANA give happiness human nature idea ideal imagination impressions indeterminate infinite instinct intelligence interest intrinsic kind King Lear landscape lence less material meaning ments mind moral ness never object objectified observation organisation ourselves pain passion perceived perception perfection perhaps philosophy plastic arts Platonists pleased poet possible practical present principle realisation reality reason recognise relation retina romanticism satisfaction sensation sense of beauty sensuous sexual sexual selection soul spontaneous stim stimulation sublime suggestion Sybaris symmetry taste tendency theory things thought tical tion trinsic truth tween ugly unity utilitarian utility vague virtue vision words Xenophon