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The Seventh Sense Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics Kivy, Peter Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey Print publication date: 2003 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926002-7
XVI Hume's Neighbour's Wife: An Essay on the Evolution of Hume's Aesthetics doi:10.1093/0199260028.003.0016 Peter Kivy Abstract: Traces the evolution of Hume's theory of taste and beauty from the Treatise to the essay ‘Of the Standard of Taste’, with special emphasis on the advantages of his ‘epistemic’ stance over Hutcheson's ‘non-epistemic’ one. Keywords: aesthetics, beauty, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, sense, sentiment, taste,

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Preface

Part I Hutcheson's First “Inquiry”

I Just Before Hutcheson

II The Sense of “Sense”

III The Sense of “Beauty”

IV The Sense of “Beautiful”

V Varieties of Aesthetic Experience

VI God and Aesthetics

Part II Hutcheson — and Shortly Thereafter

VII Rationalist Aesthetics in the Age of Hutcheson

VIII Hutcheson and Hume

IX Common Sense and the Sense of Beauty

X The Rise of Association

XI The Triumph of Association

XII End of an Era

Part III The Logic of Taste

XIII The Logic of Taste: The First Fifty Years

XIV Hutcheson's Idea of Beauty: Simple or Complex?

XV The “Sense” Of Beauty and the Sense of “Art”: Hutcheson's Place in the History and Practice of Aesthetics

XVI Hume's Neighbour's Wife: An Essay on the Evolution of Hume's Aesthetics

XVII Hume's “Sentiments” In the Essay on Taste

XVIII The Logic of Taste: Reid and the Second Fifty Years

XIX Seeing (And So Forth) Is Believing (Among Other Things): On the Significance of Reid in the History of Aesthetics

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