The notion of taste in the 18th-Century British philosophy: Shaftesbury, James Harris and David Hume

• Grant number: 07/00086-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: May 01, 2007
• End date: June 25, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Maria Lucia Mello e Oliveira Cacciola
• Grantee: Luís Fernandes dos Santos Nascimento
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In light of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), James Harris (1709-1780) and David Hume's (1711-1776) works, this project intends to analyse the relevance of the problem of taste in Eighteenth -Century British Philosophy. As we attempt to show in the course of our research, the works of these three philosophers has turned taste into a real philosophical subject and being related to the current notion of philosophy.