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Plato and Hume’s Philosophy of Art 柏拉图和休谟的艺术哲学

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste' Pub Date : 2019-05-06 DOI: 10.1515/9783110585575-014

Bernard D. Freydberg

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Frontmatter

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste' Pub Date : 2019-05-06 DOI: 10.1515/9783110585575-fm

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Signatures and Taste: Hume’s Mortal Leavings and Lucian 签名与品味:休谟的《凡人遗》与《卢西安》

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste' Pub Date : 2019-05-06 DOI: 10.1515/9783110585575-002

Babette Babich

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Taste and Civil Society 品味与公民社会

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste' Pub Date : 2019-05-06 DOI: 10.1515/9783110585575-011

H. Caygill

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Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste 休谟和味觉的因果理论

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste' Pub Date : 2019-05-06 DOI: 10.2307/431625

R. Shiner

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Of the Standard of Taste 品味的标准

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste' Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.4324/9781315303673-97

David Hume

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