Philosophy 330 - Key Texts in Aesthetics

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Bard College

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In attempting to explain important features of our experience of art and nature, philosophers from the 18th century forward have proposed the existence of a mental faculty or type of judgment not wholly reducible to either sense perception or conceptual thought. "Aesthetic" isthe most common term for this faculty, and the judgments for which it is responsible. This course examines various accounts of the notion of the aesthetic-and closely related issues concerning art, taste, and beauty-through in-depth scrutiny of historically important texts: FrancisHutcheson, "Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue"; David Hume, "Of the Standardof Taste"; and Immanuel Kant, "The Critique ofJudgment." The course ends with a sampling of significant 20th-century approaches to the same themes.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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