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| The central question of aesthetics |
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What is beauty?
What kind of experience does one undergo when experiencing beauty? |
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| The underlying question in 'On the Standard of Taste' |
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| Is beauty subjective or objective? |
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1711-1776
born and died in Edinburgh
Chief ambition was to devote himself to the study of philosophy
Lead an austere life, was financially independent
Religious sceptic
Never taught in a university because of this scepticism
British empiricist
Enlightenment philosopher |
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Lord Shaftsbury
Addison
Hutcheson
Burke |
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1757
Together with three other essays in 'Four Dissertations'
Lighter tone, aimed at wider readership |
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| The Issue of Variety of Taste |
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Great variation in taste
Judgments come from observation - aesthetic judgments are empirical.
Taste does not always correlate with background
Some opinions of taste seem self-evident (classicism)
Hume's solution: a 'Standard of Taste' |
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Rules about art, evident in practices and opinions
General principals held within all good art
related to Hume's wider empiricist project, and the enlightenment - external, rational laws |
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| Empiricism and the Standard of Taste |
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Aesthetic rules derivable through observation
Rejection of 'innate' sciences - not something intuitively known |
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| Enlightenment and the Standard of Taste |
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Philosophical analysis of 'human nature'
Empirical analysis of phenomena |
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Not a quality inherent in things themselves
A mental state
Stimulated by certain qualities/material aspects of an object
Linked to emotions
Secondary Qualities (Locke) |
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Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2.viii
Primary qualities exist in/are inseparable from the bodies themselves (extension, motion, volume, solidity). Not contingent upon observation
Secondary Qualities: contingent upon observation, caused by 'powers in bodies' which elicit our mental representations of the secondary qualities |
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Psychic benefit - fulfillment
Equilibrium in mind/emotion - restorative (Makkreel)
Deeper understanding of life - grand themes
Furthering our good dispositions - dispositions to love, the sublime (disposition to admire) |
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