 | Lillian Eichler Watson - 1924 - 912 Seiten
...methods of 4000 years or more in the making. Beauty is no quality in things themselves [says Hume]. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. The savage lady in the heart of Africa cuts her skin with sharp shells and rubs black paint into the... | |
 | Henry Rutgers Marshall - 1924 - 348 Seiten
...thinkers of note until it was definitely formulated by David Hume 1 in his statement that " Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." Hume's interests lay, however, in other than aesthetic directions ; he therefore did not develop this... | |
 | Henry Rutgers Marshall - 1924 - 348 Seiten
...thinkers of note until it was definitely formulated by David Hume 1 in his statement that V' Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them/y Hume's interests lay, however, in other than aesthetic directions ; he therefore did not develop... | |
 | Ivor Armstrong Richards - 1924 - 304 Seiten
...opposite of these. 5> j^^^f (^••^P^^^^r^^V f^^^f^r CHAPTER XXIII TOLSTOY'S INFECTION THEORY Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. — Hume. IT is strange that speculations upon the arts should so rarely have begun from the most obvious... | |
 | Robert Henry Thouless - 1927 - 396 Seiten
...clearly stated by David Hume in his essay " Of the Standard of Taste," in which he says : " Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely...them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty." m This theory is worked out consistently in the light of modern psychology by Mr. HR Marshall122. It... | |
 | Francisco Mirabent - 1927 - 280 Seiten
...developping bis idea of beauty as subjective, was probably influenced by Hume, who wrote: «Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplales thern.» (Essaya, XXII.) sentido interno natural característico de Shaftesbury y de Hutcheson.... | |
 | William Russell White - 1951 - 1006 Seiten
...itself." — Plato. "For where there is love of man, there is also love of art." — Hippocrates. "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; each mind perceives a different beauty." — Hume. "There aren't 12,000 people in the world who understand... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 Seiten
...came to apply radical empiricism to the question. "All sentiment is right," he asserts boldly. "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." Taste and literary opinions, one might conclude, are purely subjective. But Hume rejects this consequence... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 Seiten
...quite another thing. Hume summarizes an opinion somewhat divergent from his own as saying that "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely...them; and each mind perceives a different beauty." For enjoyment this may do, but for the further purpose of evaluation we must search for what Hume calls... | |
 | Ernst Cassirer - 1944 - 254 Seiten
...admitted by almost all aesthetic theories. In his essay "Of the Standard of Taste" Hume declares: "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." But this statement is ambiguous. If we understand mind in Hume's own sense, and think of self as nothing... | |
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One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others. 
