HUMA 024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eurocentrism
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As hume sees it, differences in judgements of taste are a consequence of deficiencies in one or more of the five conditions that need to be satisfied to make one a "person of taste. " Hume also believes that differences in judgements of taste result from inclinations that are either biologically or culturally determined. Disinterestedness, as hume sees it, amounts to forgetting my individual being and my peculiar circumstances and considering myself as a man in general (hume, 21). You need to let go of your personal interests and prejudices to judge as a person of taste. Having said this, hume acknowledges that there are certain differences of preference for instance, for tragedy over comedy or vice-versa that are rooted in insurmountable individual and cultural differences that we can never entirely overcome. Hume did not, however, suppose that these individual preferences will result in differences in judgement of aesthetic value among persons of taste.
