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Hume and Kant on Beauty and Taste
Read the key passages from both thinkers on the ==standard of taste== and the structure of aesthetic judgment.
“Hume: 'Though it be certain that beauty and deformity... are not qualities in objects, but belong entirely to the sentiment... it is natural for us to seek a ==standard of taste==; a rule by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled... Strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character. And the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to be found, is the true ==standard of taste== and beauty.' [...] Kant: 'The judgment of taste is not a cognitive judgment... yet it does involve a claim to universal agreement. When someone says a thing is beautiful, he is not merely saying it pleases him; he demands the assent of others, even when he knows that actual agreement will not always follow.' — Hume, 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757); Kant, Critique of Judgment (1790); SEP 'Hume's Aesthetics'”