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The Sense of Beauty

By George Santayana

The Sense of Beauty Philosophy

The Sense of Beauty

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PREFACE This little 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 I can claim 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. I have studied sincerity rather than novelty, and if any subject, as for instance the excellence of tragedy, is presented in a new light, the change consists only in the stricter application to a complex subject of the principles acknowledged to obtain in our simple judgments. My effort throughout has been to recall those fundamental aesthetic feelings the orderly extension of which yields sanity of judgment and distinction of taste. The influences under which the book has been written are rather too general and pervasive to admit of specification; yet the student of philosophy will not fail to perceive how much I owe to writers, both living and dead, to whom no honour could be added by my acknowledgments. I have usually omitted any reference to them in foot-notes or in the text, in order that the air of controversy might be avoided, and the reader might be enabled to compare what is said more directly with the reality of his own experience. G. S. September, 1906
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Number of Pages:
164
Release Date:
2022-03-02
Publication Date:
2022-03-02
Publisher:
Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1644396440
ISBN13:
9781644396445
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
336 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
231 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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