PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Taste (Sociology)
9 Nov 2017
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Hume of the standards of taste (aesthetics) Aesthetics: what is beauty, what makes something beautiful, what counts as art (what makes something good art as opposed to bad art): you can interpret something to be art, everyone has di erent interpretations of art. Aesthetic judgments: are objective - people can say that they know that something is aesthetic, but they also know that their preference doesn"t support this: you"re subjective, but not to your taste. We give reasons for our opinions about art. Criticism seems impossible (as opposed to mere voicing of preferences) Sentiments: feelings and reactions that come from the disposition of an individuals sensory organs, can"t be wrong and aren"t always equal, subjective. Without an observer there are no sentiments, so there is no beauty. Nothing is really beautiful or ugly, it just depends on how your grans are functioning.
