
Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Hume's Sense of Beauty in Judges
Hume is less interested than hutchison about giving a definition of beauty. It's more just the competent judges know it when they see it. For hutcheson, universality lies in this uniformity and variety thesis. For hume, hume is not going to have that to appeal to. Seth wherare you out with this? We can come back to some of these issues. But in hutchison's starting in section six, it's of the universality, of the sense of beauty among men. And then that ends up being the thing that hume is also, like his primishs whole articles has to do with."
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