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A 5 page paper which examines Hume’s position on the rules governing art, by outlining the arguments he presents for and against, considers whether or not his arguments have any flaws, how his interpretation compares with Plato’s and discusses which argument is more persuasive and why. No additional sources are used.
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as art can be fully appreciated. In his essay, "Of the Standard of Taste," Hume distanced himself from other art critics of his time by opposing that art was
based upon aesthetic judgments that determined one work was more valuable than another. He argued that these assessments were not judgments, but rather, were generated by sentiments that dictated
whether or not a work was pleasing to the senses. It is these varying degrees of sentiments, not different aesthetic judgments, that are responsible for determining whether or not
something is beautiful (and, therefore, a work of art) or ugly. Essentially, Hume stated that if these conclusions were, in fact, aesthetic judgments, there would be no discrepancies as
to what constitutes art. He wrote, "The difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in
appearance" (Hume). For example, while one person might regard Citizen Kane as a work of cinematic art, there might be another who claims that the slapstick farce Dumb and
Dumber is art. Hume would state it was simply a matter of sentiment, and that the perceived beauty in these works would be clearly dependent upon the eye of
the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were responses to the sensory appeal of each film. A sentiment, Hume explained, does not extend beyond
the work itself, and therefore, does not qualify as a judgment: "All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a
man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and
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