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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. OF ACCURACY AND INACCURACY IN IMPRESSIONS OF SENSE. 1. By what Hitherto we have observed only the distinctions ... the f dignity among pleasures of sense, considered SrTifbe de merely as such, and the way in which any of them terminedi may become theoretic in being received with right feeling. But as we go farther, and examine the distinctive nature of ideas of beauty, we shall, I believe, perceive something in them besides aesthetic pleasure, which attests a more important function belonging to them than attaches to other sensual ideas, and exhibits a more exalted character in the faculty by which they are received. And this was what I alluded to, when I said in the chapter already referred to ( 1, ) that we may indeed perceive, as far as we are acquainted with the nature of God, that we have been so constructed as in a healthy state of mind to derive pleasure from whatever things are illustrative of that nature. This point it is necessary now farther to develop. Our first inquiry must evidently be, how we are authorized to affirm of any man's mind, respecting impressions of sight, that it is in a healthy state or otherwise. What canon or test is there by which we may determine of these impressions that they are or are not rightly esteemed beautiful. To what authority, when men are at variance with each other on this subject, shall it be deputed to judge which is right ? or is there any such authority or canon at all ? For it does not at first appear easy to prove that men ought to like one thing rather than another, and although this is granted generally by men's speaking of bad or good taste, it is frequently denied when we pass to particulars, by the assertion of each individual that he has a right to his opinion ? a right which is sometime...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217788137 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217788130 |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 In |
| List Price | $14.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 184 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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