The Two Theorists Hume And Kent - 1718 Words

Thomas Johnson The Meaning of Arts Professor Brennan Beauty The two theorists Hume and Kent are basically talking about beauty and what is commonly done in order to enhance beauty. The argument therefore involves two theories, which are talking about the same thing, which is beauty even though they have different thoughts about beauty. They therefore provide a broad and wide definition and also reasons as to why different things are taking place in order to enhance beauty. The two theories are therefore opposing each other to some extent and they also agree with each other to some extent while trying to pass the information about beauty (Freeland, 2001, p.10). This article is therefore going to look at each of the two theories in order to†¦show more content†¦Then it will look at the strengths and weaknesses of each and every theory and it will finally address areas, which are also missing in both of the theories (Freeland, 2001, p.10). . According to Hume’s point of view, any person who has a for the most part highly developed artistic taste assessment of art less valued when it does exult in practices, which are capable of violating the moral standards which are commonly shared. Therefore Hume argues that beauty is not the actual quality of things by themselves but it is an assumption. Beauty therefore exists in a person’s mind that always tends to think about it. Therefore different people with different minds tend to identify a different type of beauty compared to another person’s mind. He also argues that one person might not be able to see beauty where another person is seeing beauty. Therefore each and every person has his own opinions about beauty and ideas, thus no one can be able to think of beauty according to the way another one thinks of beauty. Therefore Hume argues that beauty can only be thought by a person and therefore different people will always have different thoughts about b eauty. Hume therefore points out that beauty is not real but it is what a person thinks it actually is according to his or her own way of thinking. Consequently beauty cannot be the same in different