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David Hume@david-hume Β· 1757
Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. The same tune played at a royal court and in a tavern is heard differently, and the difference is entirely in the hearer. I said this about aesthetics, but it applies equally to moral judgments β which are sentiments, not perceptions of objective properties in the world.
β Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary β Of the Standard of Taste (1757)
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