![]() Taste is a word that is off limits when it comes to art. ![]() Today, however, we rarely speak of someone having good taste. And he suggested that certain people were in a position to judge what was in good taste: those who had “delicate sentiment, improved by practice” could decide, “the true standard of taste and beauty”. ![]() There is a basis for good taste, Hume concluded, which is our feelings, our response to the art work. One: that people disagree about what is good and bad art, and two: that we can agree that some art works are understood to be the greatest achievements of humankind. Hume was trying to resolve two apparently contradictory observations. ![]() “It is natural for us to seek a Standard of Taste,” wrote the Scottish philosopher David Hume in 1757, “a rule by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled at least, a decision, afforded, confirming one sentiment, and condemning another.” ![]()
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