
Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Isn't Locke the Most Reprinted Book in the Eighteenth Century?
Hutchison was an inquiry concerning beauty, order, harmony and design from 17 25. His theory that we get here is actually very platonic. What we find beautiful in something, he says, we shouldn't find the a copies of something more beautiful. It's the original we should look at. All appreciation of beauty rolls eventually into appreciating god,. which is very much in line with plato as saying that beauty and truth are all the same.
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