...theory quite another thing. Hume summarizes an opinion somewhat divergent from his own as saying that "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists...them; and each mind perceives a different beauty." For enjoyment this may do, but for the further purpose of evaluation we must search for what Hume calls...

...be admitted by almost all aesthetic theories. In his essay "Of the Standard of Taste" Hume declares: "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." But this statement is ambiguous. If we understand mind in Hume's own sense, and think of self as nothing...

...possibility of a consensus in critical judgements: no sentiment represents what is really in the object . . . Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists...contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty . . . every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those...

...were drawn by David Hume (1711-1776). In his essay "Of the Standard of Taste," he remarks (1965: 6): Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists...deformity, where another is sensible of beauty... To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an inquiry, as to pretend to ascertain...

...perceive the world. 5 As David Hume put it in describing that species of philosophy current in his day, 'Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.' 6 About 1580 Sir Philip Sidney wrote that the aim of poetry is to teach and delight and made it clear...

...Körner 1986, S. 250f. 80. Gerard 1780, S.4. 81. Hume 1904, S. 234 f., der vollständige Satz lautet: „Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists...deformity, where another is sensible of beauty)." 82. Kat. Gainsborough 1980, Nr. 139. Das Ende des Mythos im 1 8. Jahrhundert i. Es sei hier nicht die...

...quasi-universality of the Beautiful. Though it is true that there exist great variations in taste, since "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them . . . ,"22 we cannot thereby conclude that "all tastes are equivalent": "Whoever would assert an equality...

...filosoof David Hume kwam in zijn Of the Standard of Taste (1757) tot de subjectivistische conclusie: "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."11 Tegelijkertijd was Hume ook de man van de eenheid der menselijke natuur en de universaliteit...

...in his essay 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757). He noted the inevitable Empiricist conclusion that 'beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists...contemplates them, and each mind perceives a different beauty'.4' None the less, Hume went on, common sense and the demands of practical action cause us to...

...Hutcheson in 1726, 'is relative to the sense of some mind perceiving it'. 'Beauty', Hume concluded in 1757, 'is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them . . . Each mind perceives a different beauty'. That - despite equivocation - was the basis of Burke's...