 | Pamela R. Matthews, David McWhirter - 2003 - 534 pàgines
...As David Hume famously put it in his essay "Of the Standard of Taste," "Beauty is no quality in the things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which...contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."7 The Greek aiesthesis, the origin of the Latin word aesthetica used by Alexander Baumgarten... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - 2001 - 354 pàgines
...objectivity of beauty has continued to have a significant influence on contemporary reflection. For Hume, 'beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them'."" Just as Hume argued that the perception of 'order' within nature was the imposition of the human mind,... | |
 | James Kirwan - 2006 - 210 pàgines
...object. It only marks a certain conformity or relation between die object and the organs or faculties of the mind; and if that conformity did not really...quality in things themselves: It exists merely in die mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive... | |
 | Martin Jay - 2005 - 454 pàgines
...by David Hume, who argued in his 1757 essay "Of the Standard of Taste," "beauty is no quality in the things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which...contemplates them, and each mind perceives a different beauty."23 The foundation of rules of aesthetic composition, he insisted, is "the same with that of... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pàgines
...he followed this logic to its conclusion. "Beauty is not a quality in things themselves," he argued, "it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."'18 This subjectivist formulation would seem to preclude the possibility of universal standards... | |
 | Ernst Oldemeyer - 2005 - 444 pàgines
...die Kunst die Aufgabe ab, .Schönes' zur Erscheinung zu bringen. Ähnlich wie schon für David Hume („Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them")47 hat für Fiedler „Schönheit ... ihr einziges Dasein in einer subjektiven Lustempfindung".... | |
 | David Hume - 2006 - 629 pàgines
...object. It only marks a certain conformity or relation between the object and the organs or faculties of the mind ; and if that conformity did not really...exist, the sentiment could never possibly have being. Beanty is no quality in things themselves : it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ;... | |
 | Martin Jay - 2005 - 454 pàgines
...by David Hume, who argued in his 1757 essay "Of the Standard of Taste," "beauty is no quality in the things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which...them, and each mind perceives a different beauty." 23 The foundation of rules of aesthetic composition, he insisted, is "the same with that of all the... | |
 | Arthur Pontynen - 402 pàgines
...to understand an objective and purposeful reality. He is influenced by David Hume, who stated that beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. Schopenhauer concludes that beauty is not to be understood, but experienced. It is then associated... | |
 | Brent Kalar - 2006 - 190 pàgines
...type of thing that can be right or wrong. Beauty 'is no quality in the things themselves', but rather exists 'merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty' (ibid.)- The notion that beauty exists outside of the mind and is an independent property of objects... | |
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. 
