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Philosophy

The Aesthetics of Taste and the Role of Sentiment in Judgment

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In the 18th century, philosophers like David Hume and Francis Hutcheson argued that aesthetic judgments are not products of reason but of sentiment—a special kind of feeling—challenging the idea that beauty is an objective property of things.

Why this is interesting

We’ve all argued that a song is beautiful while a friend insists it’s noise. But if beauty is a feeling, can either of us really be right?