Esthetica moderne periode I: Hume

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Esthetica - moderne periode I Hume

• Introductie Hume Wat is smaak?
• Historische context Baumgarten empiristische
  esthetica
• Algemene aspecten van Humes filosofie
• Of the standard of taste Hume over de
  esthetische ervaring

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David Hume

• 1711-1776
• A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)
• Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741
  sqq.)
• An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748)
• An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals
  (1751)
• The Natural History of Religion (1757)
• History of England (6 vols., 1754-1762)
• Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1778)

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Esthetische Experimenten Hogarth
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Esthetische Experimenten Fechner
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Historische Context Baumgarten

• 1 scientia cognitionis sensitivae
• 17 infra distinctionem
• 14 finis est perfectio cognitionis sensitivae,
  haec autem est pulchritudo
• 18 pulchritudo est consensus cogitationum
  inter se ad unum, quid phaenomenon sit

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Context Empiristische esthetica

• Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of
  S. 1671-1713) The Moralists, 1709
  Characteristics 1711
• Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Essays in the
  Spectator
• Francis Hutcheson (1694-1747) An Inquiry into
  the Origins of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
  1725
• Edmund Burke (1729-1797) A philosophical Enquiry
  into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and
  Beautiful 1757
• William Hogarth (1697-1764) The Analysis of
  Beauty 1753

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Hume

• Experiment science of manrender all our
  principles as universal as possible, by tracing
  up our experiments to the utmost, and explaining
  all effects from the simplest and fewest causes,
  tis still certain we cannot go beyond
  experience
• Perceptions Impressions - ideas
• Reason vs. Sentiment moral certainty
• Standards not fixed a priori
• Truth niet centraal voor esthetische oordelen
  If we take in our hand any volume ... let us
  ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning
  concerning quantity or number? No. Does it
  contain any experimental reasoning concerning
  matter of fact? No. Commit it then to the flames
  for it can contain nothing but sophistry an
  illusion.

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Hume Esthetische Ervaring

• Delicacy
• Practice in a particular art
• Comparison
• Free from all prejudice
• Context
• The good critic
• All sentiment is right