Of the Standard of Taste

David Hume was a Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist known today especially for his radical philosophical empiricism and skepticism. The author described the problem of standards of the taste from a general aesthetic viewpoint in this work. A taste – is an ability to differ the beauty from the ugly in the nature and in the art. The difficulty of the understanding of it is concluded in the object of the issue. The beauty is not the quality that existing in different things – the beauty exists in subconscious… Read the article till the end to know the whole work!