PREMIUM-Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Hume (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We get into more detail on David Hume's "The Standard of Taste" (1760). How does he resolve the paradox that it seems both that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, yet some judgments about beauty are obviously wrong?

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0:00.0	The partially examined life philosophy podcast Part 1 episodes are designed to be self-contained,
0:12.7	fully satisfying experiences in themselves.
0:15.6	But for hardcore philosophy fans, we record for another hour or so to release behind
0:20.0	our various paywalls to folks that pitch in to help us make this show.
0:24.1	What you're about to hear is a preview of one of these Part 2 episodes, we hope you
0:27.7	enjoy it.
0:28.7	This is the partially examined life episode 289 Part 2.
0:33.5	We've been discussing Shafesbury Hutchison and Hume on aesthetic intersense theory.
0:39.7	I think we wanted to hit Hume in some more detail since that is the most famous essay I
0:45.6	did notice today.
0:47.8	Very bad wizards just put up an episode on just this thing by itself.
0:52.5	So they scooped us those bastards.
0:54.4	On the Hume.
0:55.4	Judgment of taste?
0:56.4	Yes.
0:57.4	I want to listen to that.
0:58.8	I like the fact that Hume starts us out with an end-to-me.
1:02.3	He's got two conflicting common sense views about a standard of taste.
1:08.0	One of them is that it's relative that taste is about sentiment and there's no reference
1:13.2	to anything beyond itself that to each their own.
1:19.0	And there's not really a corresponding matter of fact when it comes to beauty and the beauty
1:23.6	is not out there in the object, but it's a matter of conformity between object and faculties,
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