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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
XVIII The Logic of Taste: Reid and the Second Fifty Years doi:10.1093/0199260028.003.0018 Peter Kivy Abstract: Traces the changes in the logic of aesthetic perception in the second half of the eighteenth century, culminating in Thomas Reid's theory of taste and beauty. Keywords: aesthetics, beauty, Francis Hutcheson, perception, Thomas Reid, sense,

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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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