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The Sense of Beauty

Taste, the sublime, and the object that becomes art by being placed

Hume · Kant · Nietzsche · Danto · 4 chapters · 13 min read

Why taste feels personal and argues as though it isn't.

Free to read: every chapter below is open

Taste

  1. 01Is There a Standard of Taste?On why nobody actually believes that beauty is entirely in the eye of the beholder.
  2. 02Beauty Without a UseOn a judgement that is subjective and still demands that you agree.

The Made Thing

  1. 03Why We Watch SufferingOn why people pay to watch things they would cross the road to avoid.
  2. 04When an Object Becomes ArtOn two objects that look identical, where one is art and one is a box.