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On Beauty, Taste and Other Aesthetic Theories of David Hume
KONG Zhong-min
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.07.007
South China Business College of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), Guangzhou, China
In this paper, David Hume’s research on the essence and causes of beauty, the standard of taste, and aesthetic effect Of Tragedy will be discussed to explore his aesthetic principles and philosophy of art. Hume points out that beauty, with the power to produce pleasure as its essence, is an order and construction of parts being fitted to the soul. Hume discusses the diversity and universality of taste and his attempt to find the standard of taste. The aesthetic effect Of Tragedy in the eyes of Hume is also introduced. Hume’s aesthetic theory is closely connected to his moral philosophy and theories of human thought and emotion following the English empirical tradition of experience and observations.
David Hume, essence of beauty, standard of taste, tragedy
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