David Hume - 'Of the Standard of Taste'

Question 1

Date?

Answer 1

1757

Question 2

Subjectivist view of beauty - quotation

Answer 2

‘these attributes [beauty] arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection’

Question 3

On the ‘natural equality of tastes’

Answer 3

‘If you be wise, each of you will allow that the other may be right’

Question 4

Contradiction - sometimes quality is so obvious there is no need to dispute

Answer 4

‘sometimes there can be no doubt who the better artist or what the better artwork is’

Question 5

Francis Hutcheson text

Answer 5

1725, ‘An Inquiry into the Original Idea of Beauty and Virtue’

Question 6

Quotation from Hutcheson on aesthetic subjectivism (first part)

Answer 6

by beauty ‘is not understood any Quality suppos’d to be in the Object, which should of itself be beautiful, without relation to any mind which perceives it’

Question 7

Second part of quotation

Answer 7

‘For beauty: like other Names of sensible Ideas, properly denotes the Perception of some Mind.’