Concept

Aesthetic taste

Overview

In aesthetics, the concept of taste has been the interest of philosophers such as Plato, Hume, and Kant. It is defined by the ability to make valid judgments about an object's aesthetic value. However, these judgments are deficient in objectivity, creating the 'paradox of taste'. The term 'taste' is used because these judgments are similarly made when one physically tastes food.

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Philosophers who discussed Aesthetic taste

• Intellectual
• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
• George Dickie (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Georg Simmel
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Immanuel Kant
• Judgement
• Aesthetics
• Validity (logic)
• Plato
• Paradox
• Empirical evidence
• Beauty
• Critique of Judgment
• David Hume
• Four Dissertations

Place in the tradition

Part of Aesthetics.

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