Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
How do we know what opinions about beauty are correct? We read The Moralists: A Philosophical Rhapsody (1709) by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, aka the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Part III section 2 "Beauty," and An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design (1725) by Francis Hutcheson, and "The Standard of Taste" by David Hume (1760).
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:11.3 | set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:14.7 | Our question for episode 289 is something like, how can we know what opinions about beauty |
| 0:20.6 | are correct? |
| 0:21.6 | And we read selections from the 18th century British philosophers, Anthony Ashley Cooper |
| 0:26.7 | aka the Earl of Shaftesbury, Francis Hutchison and David Yu. |
| 0:32.1 | For more information please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:35.0 | This is Mark Linson, Myron Madison, Wisconsin choosing my favorite authors just as I choose |
| 0:39.0 | my friends from a conformity of mood and disposition. |
| 0:42.9 | This is Seth Pascon, gradually, haphazardly, randomly educating my tastes in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:50.8 | This is Wes AllOne uniform amidst the variety of Cambridge Massachusetts. |
| 0:56.6 | This is Dylan Casey, detecting both a substrate of leather and an infusion of iron in my |
| 1:02.5 | life. |
| 1:03.5 | I'm sad to think in Mexico. |
| 1:05.0 | Nice. |
| 1:06.0 | Don't drink out of the jug, Dylan. |
| 1:07.7 | It's good for slideshow, it's good for me. |
| 1:11.5 | It's a very another St. John'sy type of example to use. |
| 1:14.9 | Well, now we have to explain it. |
| 1:17.1 | That's from the the Hume. |
| 1:19.1 | It is a reference to, it's about, it's like the Princess in the P, having very refined |
| 1:24.0 | senses. |
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