Dr. Ellie Anderson, philosophy professor and co-host of Overthink podcast, discusses Hume's essay "On the Standard of Taste", breaking down his distinction between judgment and sentiment. Hume also offers five criteria in order to help us answer the question: is there a standard of taste? Are aesthetic questions purely matters of personal feeling? Textbook is Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology reader, ed. Cahn and Meskin (Blackwell, 2008).
This video is part of a series introducing philosophers' views of art and aesthetics.
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