Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

A Critical Review on the Book Hume’s Aesthetic Theory, Taste and Sentiment

Document Type : Research

Authors

Zolfaghar Hemmati 1
Seyyed Mostafa Shahraeini 2

1 Assistant Professor, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS), Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2020.33457.2023
Abstract
Townsend’s Hume's Aesthetics Theory, Taste and Sentiment is a critical point in Hume studies. Before that, Hume's commentators hold that his aesthetics was explained only in his short essay entitled as Standard of Taste. But Townsend shows that Hume's aesthetic can be found in other works, such as A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Through these books, we can gain a comprehensive understanding of Hume's aesthetics. But, furthermore, he asserts that the main basis of Hume’s philosophical system is his aesthetics, a claim that we found it very controversial. He also shows that concepts of taste and sentiment have an epistemological role in Hume's Aesthetics. But his conclusive interest to aesthetics leads him to give a strange and misunderstanding reading of Hume's philosophy. This book could be better understood as speculation concerning Hume’s philosophical system rather than instructing his aesthetics.

Keywords

Townsend
Aesthetics
Hume
Morals
Taste
Sentiment

Subjects

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Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
Volume 21, Issue 11 - Serial Number 99
February 2022
Pages 289-311

  • Receive Date 13 September 2021
  • Revise Date 22 November 2021
  • Accept Date 29 December 2021

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