Concept
Taste
Overview
sense that detects types of chemicals that touch the tongue
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For this involves a command and generates a want, whilst moral taste only plays with the objects of satisfaction, without attaching itself to one of them. EXPLANATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL RESULTING FROM THE FIRST MOMENT _Taste_ is the faculty of judging of an object or a method of representing it by an _entirely disinterested_ satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The object of such satisfaction is called _beautiful_.[18]
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
The chapter “OF THE JUDGEMENT OF TASTE[12] ACCORDING TO QUALITY” is titled for Taste; names Taste several times.
For some animals have ears, and others open perforations: so also of the sense of smelling, some animals have nostrils, others passages, as the whole class of birds. In the same way the tongue is the organ of taste.
Aristotle, Aristotle's History of Animals In Ten Books
States what Taste is; names Taste several times.
All this is requisite to form taste, and the ground-work of all these is the same in the human mind; for as the senses are the great originals of all our ideas, and consequently of all our pleasures, if they are not uncertain and arbitrary, the whole ground-work of taste is common to all, and therefore there is a sufficient foundation for a conclusive reasoning on these matters.
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
The chapter “PRINCIPLES OF TASTE.” is titled for Taste; names Taste several times.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.