Aesthetics: Volume I

The objectivity of beauty

The realm of aesthetic values: metaphysical beauty and the beauty of the visible and the audible

How is metaphysical beauty given in our experience?

The role of the senses in apprehending beauty

The beauty of the visible and the audible in its relation to expressed metaphysical beauty

The riddle of spiritual beauty in the realm of the visible and the audible

The various way in which the visible and the audible are linked to non-martial contents

Levels of beauty

Te solution to the riddle: the mystery of the immaterial beauty of visible and audible things

The spiritual plenitude of the beauty of the second power

The poetic

The three antitheses to beauty: ugliness, triviality, and boringness

Thematic and unthematic bearers of beauty

Beauty in nature

Beauty in human life

The aesthetic experience

The variety of aesthetic values

Elegance

The comical

Beauty and truth

The bond of beauty with morality and with love.