1. The general theory of the beautiful
1a. The beautiful and the good: beauty as kind of fitness or order
1b. Beauty and truth: the beautiful as an object of contemplation
1c. The elements of beauty: unity, proportion, clarity
1d. The distinction between the beautiful and the sublime
2. Beauty in nature and in art
3. Beauty in relation to desire and love, as object or cause
4. Beauty and ugliness in relation to pleasure and pain
5. Judgments of beauty: the objective and the subjective in aesthetic judgments or judgments of taste
6. The role of the beautiful in education
7. Intelligible beauty
7a. The beauty of God
7b. The beauty of the universe
7c. Beauty in the order of ideas
7d. Beauty in the moral order