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  • 14 - Art and Aesthetic Theory

  • Edited by Alexander Broadie, University of Glasgow, Craig Smith, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment
    Published online:
    04 October 2019
    Print publication:
    26 September 2019, pp 271-288

  • Summary

    Driven above all by the desire to reconcile aesthetic and moral value, Scottish philosophers, poets and artists made essential contributions to eighteenth-century aesthetics and art theory. This essay examines some of the key moments in the history of Scottish aesthetics from the 1720s to the early years of the nineteenth century. In particular, it surveys the ways in which Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, George Turnbull, Allan Ramsay, Lord Kames, William Duff, Alexander Gerard, Thomas Reid, Archibald Alison and Dugald Stewart debated the respective roles of the senses, reason and the imagination in the appreciation of beauty; asked whether beauty is in the object or the subject; pondered the relationship between virtue, wealth and aesthetic judgement; and considered the existence of a universal standard of taste.