[Note:  for this online edition I have moved the Table of Contents tothe beginning of the text and slightly modified it to conform with the onlineformat. I have also made one spelling change:  "ominiscient intelligence"to "omniscient intelligence".]


THE SENSE OF BEAUTY
BEING THE OUTLINES OF AESTHETIC THEORY
by
GEORGE SANTAYANA

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Printed in the United States of America



CONTENTS

 Preface 
  Introduction — The Methods of Aesthetics1-13
   
 Part I. — The Nature of Beauty 
§ 1.  The philosophy of beauty is a theory of values  14
§ 2.  Preference is ultimately irrational  18
§ 3.  Contrast between moral and aesthetic values  28
§ 4.  Work and play  25
§ 5.  All values are in one sense aesthetic  28
§ 6.  Aesthetic consecration of general principles  31
§ 7.  Contrast of aesthetic and physical pleasures  35
§ 8.  The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not itsdisinterestedness  37
§ 9.  The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its universality  40
§ 10.  The differential of aesthetic pleasure:  itsobjectification  44
§ 11.  The definition of beauty  49
   
 Part II. — The Materials of Beauty 
§ 12.  All human functions may contribute to the sense of beauty...                        
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