PHILOSOPHY OF THE ARTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO AESTHETICS:
Gordon Graham
- "the person who declares something to be beautiful can find as reason for his delight no personal conditions to which his own subjective self might alone be party [and therefore] must believe that he has reason for demanding a similar delight from everyone. Accordingly he will speak of the beautiful as if beauty were a quality of the object and the judgement merely a reference of the representation of the object to the subject" (p.17-18).
- 'while it is true that beauty needs to be appreciated subjectively, when we see beautiful things we are aware that the pleasure we derive from them is not a function of something peculiar to us, some 'personal condition to which our own subjective self might alone be party'. Beauty is subjective, but it is not merely personal, as the expression of a preference is when we refer to something of which w happen to be especially fond (p.18).
REFERENCE: Graham, G. (2005) Philosophy Of The Arts: An Introduction To Aesthetics. London and New York: Routledge.
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