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Of the Standard of Taste
Of the Standard of Taste, a 1757 essay by philosopher David Hume, was a seminal essay on aesthetics that used as its main innovation an approach focusing on the subject (the viewer, the reader) rather than the object (the painting, the book). This was revolutionary at its time, following as it did a vast number of attempts by philosophers to define beauty, all of which were destined for relative failure given the abstract nature of the term, and the manifold and varying manifestations of beauty in art and nature.
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