Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")
Very Bad Wizards
Is the Circularity That?
The proposal has been criticized on the grounds that it posits a viciously circular analysis of aesthetic value. Aesthetically superior art works are those endorsed, endorsed by true critics. But how do we know if theyre like, if these people are correctly identifying beautiful thing? We would have to already know what was beautiful so that we could identify the good judges. So here is quoting from the por encyclopaedia entry: "So you know that something is beautifus, like an epistemich claim"
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