Beauty


The text of the Syntopicon outline follows.
When you click on an outline element, you will see 25 follow-on references.

While this project is in beta mode, to continue your research we suggest you submit a portion of the chosen snippet or its reference to Google.
Once we go "live" full text of the references shown will be available here.


Click here to see search results for the outline as a whole

Each sentence is linked to search results using that sentence as the query.


1 The general theory of the beautiful.
2 The beautiful and the good, beauty as a kind of fitness or order.
3 Beauty and truth, the beautiful as an object of contemplation or adoration.
4 The elements of beauty, unity, proportion, clarity.
5 The distinction between the beautiful and the sublime.
6 Beauty in nature and in art.
7 Beauty in relation to desire and love, as object or cause.
8 Beauty and ugliness in relation to pleasure and pain or good and evil.
9 Judgments of beauty.
10 The objective and the subjective in aesthetic judgments or judgments of taste.
11 Judgments of style or fashion based on wealth or honor.
12 The role of the beautiful in education.
13 Intelligible beauty.
14 The beauty of God.
15 The beauty of the universe.
16 Beauty in the order of ideas.
17 Beauty in the moral order.


All text from the Outlines is Copyright ©1990 Encyclopedia Britannica Inc.; this electronic edition is Copyright© 2005 by Michael R. Lissack and reproduced by permission.