aesthetic taste - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A book by George Dickie calls the 1700s the “century of” this concept and discusses Alexander Gerard’s “Essay on” it and Archibald Alison’s associationism in his “Essays on the Nature and Principle of” it. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this concept that can have either “variety” or “unanimity” among people, according to an essay titled for this concept from a thinker’s Four Dissertations, which uses an example about John Ogilby and John Milton.

ANSWER: aesthetic taste [accept “Of the Standard of Taste”]

[10e] This philosopher acknowledged subjectivity in his essay “Of the Standard of Taste.” This Scot wrote A Treatise of Human Nature and posed the problem of induction.

ANSWER: David Hume [or David Home]

[10m] Hume’s aesthetics drew on the Earl of Shaftesbury and Francis Hutcheson’s theory named for this ethical concept. Adam Smith’s book titled for this two-word concept considers the “sympathy” of the “impartial spectator.”

ANSWER: moral sense [or moral sentiments; or moral sentimentalism; accept moral sense theory; accept The Theory of Moral Sentiments]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	13.00	100%	20%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%

Data


Florida B	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
UCF C	Valencia A	0	0	0	0
Florida A	UCF B	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western B	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Case Western A	0	10	10	20
Michigan State	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
UNC C	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
UNC B	UNC D	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	William & Mary	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Duke	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Missoui S&T	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Missouri	0	10	10	20
WashU B	WashU A	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
Winona State	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	BU	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Brandeis A	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Purdue	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Alberta	UW B	0	10	0	10
UW A	UBC	0	10	10	20
ASU	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Texas B	TAMU	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Southampton B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Durham	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	LSE	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
Penn B	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	John Jay College	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Penn A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
ESF A	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
Cambridge E	NYU C	0	10	0	10