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]
<Maryland B, Philosophy>
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
| 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 |
| Dartmouth A | BU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |