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Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

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The Metaphysics of Beauty

"i think the reading that its circular has to come from wanting hume to be making some sort of metaphysical claim about beauty, and i don't think he really is. What he's, what he's really talking about is the human experience of enjoying, enjoying beauty." "If somebody were to pull me aside and say, no, listen to hyden and how he does and teaches me how do this, there is a far greater chance that i will agree with the expert," she says.

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