PHIL10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Circular Reasoning
15 Jun 2018
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Lecture 18: Hume vs Kant
Hume: "of the std of taste"
Recognizes:
• Variety of taste
• Superiority of some writers
Taste requires
• Intact organs - cant be sick, physically well built etc
• Practice - need experience and familiarity, clear and distinct sentiment dev. Through
practice
• Comparison -need enough experience to exhibit taste
• Freedom from prejudice - liberate ourselves from initial pov
• Works that are admired over long period of times + appreciated by many from different
backgrounds = good words of art, picked out by good taste
• AGREEMENT OF EXPERTS OVER LONG PERIOD OF TIME
• Moral and religious backgrounds affects what we think is beautiful
Arguments against
• What happens if there is no agreement over time
• Has’t told us eough + circular arguet
HUME VS KANT
Hume:
• Closely resembles objective knowledge
• Linked w morality and feeling
• Has an empirical std
Kant
Sensibility
• Objects 'given' in sensibility
• Type of representation: 'intuitions'
Understanding
• Objects ' thought' in understanding
• Type of representation: 'concepts'
• Judgment: activity of understanding
Imagination
• Connects sensibility and understanding
• Type of representation: 'schemata' -> method of producing images to match concepts
• All we need: function of imagination is mediation/translation
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