Of the Standard of Taste
work by Hume
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contribution to aesthetics
- In aesthetics: Major concerns of 18th-century aesthetics
…an important essay entitled “Of the Standard of Taste” (in Four Dissertations, 1757), Hume, following Voltaire in the Encyclopédie, raised the question of the basis of aesthetic judgment and argued that “it is natural for us to seek a standard of taste; a rule by which the various sentiments…
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