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

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Many of us think that art is subjective, but at the same time it seems like some artistic judgments are better than others. Do you think Crash deserved to receive an award for Best Picture? Did you like Season 2 of Ted Lasso? Well you’re wrong. So how do we reconcile these two conflicting attitudes about art? David and Tamler turn to David Hume’s classic essay Of the Standard of Taste (link in notes) for help. Will Pizarro finally see the error of his ways on Straw Dogs?

Plus a doozy of a medical ethics paper – should we allow people to change their legal age if it doesn’t match their "biological" and "emotional" age?

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.4	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of love to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.0	Why don't white people just lead a house when there's a ghost in the house?
0:19.8	You'll stay in the house too fucking long. Get the fuck out of the house.
0:28.3	The lady on his phone says,
0:35.0	I'm a very good man.
0:51.0	Good man.
1:17.2	Welcome to a very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:21.0	Dave, today I'm going to decisively demonstrate to you that straw dogs is a great movie.
1:27.1	Are you ready to face that?
1:29.2	You know what it is. 40-year-olds like Pulp Fiction, 50-somethings like straw dogs.
1:35.0	You have 40-year-olds.
1:37.7	Listen, I feel 40. That's a good point, right?
1:42.6	And I actually, my emotional age is 14 maybe. So we have told you,
1:48.8	listener, both of our segments, just in that bit of just sparkling back and forth.
1:54.8	Believe it or not, it wasn't you in planned.
1:59.6	So for the second segment, we're going to do a classic paper,
2:03.6	part of our classic paper series that we, you know, it's been about five years.
2:08.2	Like now, now papers we discussed five years ago are already classic.
2:14.9	Yeah. But this one has stood the test of time.
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