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3. Hume and the Standard of Taste

3. Hume and the Standard of Taste

FromAesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures


3. Hume and the Standard of Taste

FromAesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

ratings:
Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Mar 15, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his third lecture in the Aesthetics series on Hume and the Standard of Taste.
Released:
Mar 15, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (8)

Lecture series on Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. The first part of the series focuses on some of the most important writings on art and beauty in the Western philosophical tradition, covering Plato, Aristotle, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. The second part of the series focuses on questions about understanding works of art and about the nature of art. This part examines the interpretation of literature, the expression of emotion in music, and the definition of art