| Summary: | 博士 === 中國文化大學 === 哲學研究所 === 97 === It is commonly agreed that to understand art individual aesthetic experiences, or the relationship between individual and the expression of feeling of arts are closely related. For David Hume arts should expand its scope to the habits of persons, customs of society as well as political system. When we discuss on arts and just limited in an individual experience of aesthetics, then it is difficult for us to find out a general principle of taste of arts. Hence, how to find out a principle of taste of arts, to explore the social significances of taste of arts, to definite the everlasting value of arts, to expose the interactions between arts and societies and different generations and nations those topics became the key points for Hume to explain in his theory of taste of arts.
Relating the law of connection of feeling with his views of standard of taste of arts, Hume tried to establish a general principle which is used to be the standard to evaluate the taste of arts. Nevertheless, the cultivation of the ability of taste shows that there are differences depending normally on the changes of personas, environments, and ages. With the improvement of knowledge one s understanding of arts would change accordingly, and this posed a serious problem for Hume’s theory of taste of arts. Thus, how to solve the problem of contradiction arising from his treatments of the general and the particular aspects of art become the most serious challenge to Hume’s theory of taste of arts.
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