The document discusses the empiricist philosopher David Hume and some of his key ideas. It summarizes that for Hume, all knowledge comes from experience and experience comes from the senses. It also discusses Hume's view that beauty exists in the perceptions of the mind rather than qualities of things themselves, and that a standard of taste can be derived from the shared sentiments of careful critics.

1. Hume
An Empiricist

2. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience

3. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience
All experience comes from the
senses
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4. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience
All experience comes from the
senses
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5. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience
Gold
All experience comes from the
senses

6. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience
Mountain
All experience comes from the
senses

7. Hume
All knowledge comes from Gold Mountain
experience
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All experience comes from the
senses

8. “On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.”
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.
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I have set before you life and death,
blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life, that both thou and thy seed may
live
Moses, Deuteronomy 30:19
The word virtue, with its equivalent in
every tongue, implies praise; as that of
vice does blame: And no one, without the 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
Jesus, Mark 12:28-31
most obvious and grossest impropriety,
could affix reproach to a term, which in
general acceptation is understood in a But with love, we are creative. With it,
we march tirelessly. With it, and with
good sense; or bestow applause, where it alone, we are able to sacrifice for
others.
the idiom requires disapprobation.
Chief Dan George

9. Hume
It is natural for us to seek a Standard of
Taste; a rule, by which the various
sentiments of men may be reconciled; at
least, a decision, afforded, confirming one
sentiment, and condemning another.

10. Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac

11. Brunelleschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac

12. Hume
Beauty is no quality in things
themselves: It exists merely in
the mind which contemplates
them; and each mind perceives
a different beauty. Is beauty merely in the
eye of the beholder?

13. Hume
Whoever would assert an
equality of genius and elegance Mount Teneriffe
between OGILBY and MILTON,
would be thought to defend no
less an extravagance, than if he
had maintained a molehill to be
as high as TENERIFFE.
some molehill

14. Hume
Whoever would assert an
equality of genius and elegance Milton: Paradise Lost
between OGILBY and MILTON,
would be thought to defend no
less an extravagance, than if he
had maintained a molehill to be
as high as TENERIFFE.
Ogilby

15. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
Hume
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
But though poetry can never Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
submit to exact truth, it must In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
be confined by rules of art, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
discovered to the author either Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
by genius or observation. And that has made all the difference.

16. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

17. Hume
all the general rules of
art are founded only on
experience and on the
observation of the
common sentiments of
human nature.

18. Homer’s Popularity Over Time
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Hume
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50
The same HOMER, who Rome Paris
pleased at ATHENS and 25
ROME two thousand Athens London
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years ago, is still 700 BCE 350 BCE 0 350 ACE 700 ACE 1050 ACE 1750 ACE 2000 ACE
admired at PARIS and at
LONDON.

19. The Test of Time
Homer’s Popularity Over Time
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amidst all the variety and Rome Paris
caprice of taste, there are 25
certain general principles Athens London
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whose influence a careful
eye may trace in all
operations of the mind.

20. The Critic
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a strong sense, united to delicate
sentiment, improved by practice,
perfected by comparison, and
cleared of all prejudice, can alone
entitle critics to this valuable
character; and the joint verdict of
such, wherever they are to be
found, is the true standard of
taste and beauty.

21. The Critic
Hume
a strong sense, united to delicate
sentiment, improved by practice,
perfected by comparison, and
cleared of all prejudice, can alone
entitle critics to this valuable
character; and the joint verdict of
such, wherever they are to be
found, is the true standard of
taste and beauty.

22. Test your abilities as a critic

23. Jacopo Bassano
Leonardo
Giotto Di Bondone

24. LeonardoGiotto Di Bondone
Jacopo Bassano

25. Giotto Di Bondone
Jacopo Bassano
Leonardo

26. Leonardo
Jacopo Bassano
Giotto Di Bondone

27. Michelangelo Donatello

28. Donatello
Michelangelo

29. Michelangelo Donatello

30. Rachmaninov:
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor,
Op. 27: III. Adagio
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
& David Zinman

31. Rachmaninov:
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor,
Op. 27: III. Adagio
Mikhail Pletnev &
Russian National Orchestra

32. Like a Virgin
Madonna

33. Like a Virgin
Marylin Manson