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Though Shaftesbury could be called the father of modern aesthetics, Hutcheson’s thorough treatment of the internal senses, especially of beauty, grandeur, harmony, novelty, order and design in the Inquiry, is what specifically moved the focus of study from rational explanations to the sensations.
Apr 20, 2021 · Hutcheson’s most detailed statement of his sentimentalism and substantive moral and aesthetic theory is to be found in his 1725 (and subsequently revised) work, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.
Sep 4, 2012 · Francis Hutcheson in the eighteenth century gives what may well be the clearest expression of the view: “What we call Beautiful in Objects, to speak in the Mathematical Style, seems to be in a compound Ratio of Uniformity and Variety; so that where the Uniformity of Bodys is equal, the Beauty is as the Variety; and where the Variety is equal ...
While living in Dublin, Hutcheson published anonymously the four essays for which he is best known: in 1725 Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design, and Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil, which together comprise his Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; and in 1728, the Essay on the Nature and Conduct of ...
How does Hutcheson relate standards of beauty to relative or comparative beauty? Explain Hutcheson's argument concerning the relation of our perception of beauty to the role of custom or education. In Hutcheson's view, what is the ultimate purpose of our inner sense of beauty?
Concerns Hutcheson's theory of the nature of beauty. Keywords: aesthetics, beauty, Francis Hutcheson, idea, Locke, sense of beauty, sentiment, unity, variety. Subject. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art 17th - 18th Century Philosophy. Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online.
In Francis Hutcheson …theory was propounded in his Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), in An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations upon the Moral Sense (1728), and in the posthumous System of Moral Philosophy, 2 vol. (1755).
