Introduction
1. The Empiricist Move in Aesthetics: Locke and Shaftesbury
2. Francis Hutcheson: The Sense of Taste
3. Hume: The Priority of Sentiment4. Associationism: David Hartley and Joseph Priestley
5. Theories of Taste
6. Problems of Taste: The Tragic Paradox and a Standard of Taste
7. Genius
8. The Sublime: Baillie and Burke
9. The Picturesque
10. Thomas Reid and the Theory of Taste
11. Archibald Alison: Experience and Expression
12. Dugald Stewart: Beauty and Taste Again
Conclusion
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