Chapter II.—Of the Theoretic Faculty as concerned with Pleasures of Sense.

[§ 1.]Explanation of the term "theoretic".[12]
[§ 2.]Of the differences of rank in pleasures of sense.[12]
[§ 3.]Use of the terms Temperate and Intemperate.[13]
[§ 4.]Right use of the term "intemperate".[13]
[§ 5.]Grounds of inferiority in the pleasures which are subjects of intemperance.[14]
[§ 6.]Evidence of higher rank in pleasures of sight and hearing.[15]
[§ 7.]How the lower pleasures may be elevated in rank.[16]
[§ 8.]Ideas of beauty how essentially moral.[17]
[§ 9.]How degraded by heartless reception.[17]
[§ 10.]How exalted by affection.[18]

Chapter III.—Of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Impressions of Sense.

[§ 1.]By what test is the health of the perceptive faculty to be determined?[19]
[§ 2.]And in what sense may the terms Right and Wrong be attached to its conclusions?[20]
[§ 3.]What power we have over impressions of sense.[21]
[§ 4.]Depends on acuteness of attention.[21]
[§ 5.]Ultimate conclusions universal.[22]
[§ 6.]What duty is attached to this power over impressions of sense.[22]
[§ 7.]How rewarded.[23]
[§ 8.]Especially with respect to ideas of beauty.[23]
[§ 9.]Errors induced by the power of habit.[24]
[§ 10.]The necessity of submission in early stages of judgment.[24]
[§ 11.]The large scope of matured judgment.[25]
[§ 12.]How distinguishable from false taste.[25]
[§ 13.]The danger of a spirit of choice.[26]
[§ 14.]And criminality.[27]
[§ 15.]How certain conclusions respecting beauty are by reason demonstrable.[27]
[§ 16.]With what liabilities to error.[28]
[§ 17.]The term "beauty" how limitable in the outset. Divided into typical and vital.[28]

Chapter IV.—Of False Opinions held concerning Beauty.

[§ 1.]Of the false opinion that truth is beauty, and vice versa.[30]
[§ 2.]Of the false opinion that beauty is usefulness. Compare [Chap. xii. § 5].[31]
[§ 3.]Of the false opinion that beauty results from custom. Compare [Chap. vi. § 1].[31]
[§ 4.]The twofold operation of custom. It deadens sensation, but confirms affection.[31]
[§ 5.]But never either creates or destroys the essence of beauty.[32]
[§ 6.]Instances.[32]
[§ 7.]Of the false opinion that beauty depends on the association of ideas.[33]
[§ 8.]Association. Is, 1st, rational. It is of no efficiency as a cause of beauty.[33]
[§ 9.]Association accidental. The extent of its influence.[34]
[§ 10.]The dignity of its function.[35]
[§ 11.]How it is connected with impressions of beauty.[36]
[§ 12.]And what caution it renders necessary in the examination of them.[36]

Chapter V.—Of Typical Beauty:—First, of Infinity, or the Type of Divine Incomprehensibility.