I just ran across this short video which gives a good introduction to David Hume's thoughts on the standard of taste.
THE MUSIC SALON: classical music, popular culture, philosophy and anything else that catches my fancy...
THE MUSIC SALON: classical music, popular culture, philosophy and anything else that catches my fancy...
Judgement vs sentiment; universal principles of taste requires delicacy, practice, comparison, overcoming prejudice about circumstances and personality of the artist, good sense about beauty of design and reasoning in the work. I'm surprised I even clicked since I almost never watch my information but only read, but she has an immediate delicacy to the eye that lured me beyond my prejudices around media. I think Hume's principles of judgement here could also apply to judging athletes or food, which requires similar comparisons and development of refined delicacy of judgement.
ReplyDeleteDespite the objectness and therefore objectivity in judging works of art (or any other human creation or action) there's still an inescapable subjectivity in the valuing of some works over others, as value itself exists only as emerging from human desire. All the sentiments, prejudices and delicacies grow out of our desiring some experiences more than others, and this is rooted not in the cerebral but probably mostly somatic. We probably don't usually recognize it as such due to layers of cognition over the somatic needs.
ReplyDeleteVery true, Will. There is an inherent subjectivity in the reception of art. The interesting thing is, that the objective aspect returns when we consider the possibility of the evolution or development of taste and judgement.
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