Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer

How do we know what opinions about beauty are correct? We read The Moralists: A Philosophical Rhapsody (1709) by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, aka the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Part III section 2 "Beauty," and An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design (1725) by Francis Hutcheson, and "The Standard of Taste" by David Hume (1760). 

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