
Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is a Painting Better Than a Photograph?
There is this combination of universality along with resonant uniqueness and individual ity that's happening in some of the most beautiful things. But in a painting like that, it's uniqueness that's part of what's going on, and that it's individuality. So even though dillony were just going to give a a scrutonianao, more modern, why is a painting better than a photograph? Hutcheson might have thought, like yad man, if we had photographs, we would just love those. We would just make hundreds of copies of ourselves and spill them moino,. Sort of explains the appeal of capturing everything on your phone and looking through pictures.
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