Episode #054 ... Hume pt. 4 - Art
Philosophize This!
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I'd Listen to the Same C Ds Over and Over Again
i'd listen to the same c d five, six times a day sometimes. How well a piece of art evokes these subjective emotional experiences within you really has nothing to do with how good or bad the art is necessarily. Another criteria that people use to justify why their taste in art is better than everybody else's is novelty. They just think it's novel at the time. This is yet another prejudice hume would want us to leave at home if we're going to be the kind of taste maker that he talks about in his famous essay. By the way, people do this all the time. Like, for example, my friend, the same guy that talked about dub step being the
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