The Aesthetic Taste Of Empirical Aesthetics In Modern England Theoretical Research

Britain empiricism is the first philosophy school who researched the theory of Aesthetic taste systematically in Aesthetic history. They proceeded from the empiricism epistemology based on human nature and demonstrated the produced mechanism of Aesthetic taste systematically.Aesthetic taste is an important Aesthetic judgment term in Aesthetic. So the research of it goes through a lengthy evolution. For Aesthetic taste research, the theories of different estheticians in different periods have their own characteristics. Britain empiricism Aesthetic generated under specific history background. Its appearance is the result of many aspects interaction. These factors make great influences on this Aesthetic school, such as socio-economic, politics, science, religion, social culture, literary arts and the philosophical tradition of early English.Firstly, Britain empiricism estheticians regard Sensualist and Psychologism as the starting point for their study of the produced mechanism of Aesthetic taste. They study the relationship between tastes forming and feeling, imagination and judgment deep. With the affect expansion of Rationalism, rational tendency appear. The produced mechanism of Aesthetic taste becomes abundant and developing. Estheticians of maturity period study this theory from the feeling of subject and objective factors of object and reach two conclusions which are opposition of subject and object.The greatest contribution of Aesthetic taste theory of Britain empiricism Aesthetic lies in their investigation of Aesthetic taste's standard. Empiricism estheticians of the forming period pay more attention to the investigation of external beauty and inner beauty. Under the influence of neoclassicism and rationalism, Empiricism estheticians of the forming period show their naturalism and form of rule when formulating the standard of taste. When it is mature, the theory of taste standard goes up to a high stage. Estheticians notice both the universality and the difference of the standard of taste, which is dual nature of Aesthetic taste.Since there is a general standard of Aesthetic taste, the training of Aesthetic taste becomes another issue that empiricism aestheticians concerned. The theory of this aspect is short of systemic, but it is not difficult for us to find that different aestheticians of different periods have different theory tendencies:aestheticians of early period advocate Utilitarianism; the theory of middle period is influenced by Rationalism; until later period, it shows the core concept Liberalism.The theory about Aesthetic taste of Britain empiricism Aesthetic has great significance in the developing history of Aesthetic. These theory essences influenced on the later development of Philosophy and Aesthetic. At the same time, it has positive significance for us studying nowadays Aesthetic culture.