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Reidian Aesthetics: The Instinctive/ Rational Perception
In Essay VIII – Of Taste, featuring in the Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), Thomas Reid distinguishes between “instinctive” and “rational” aesthetic perceptions. The paper focuses on this distinction; it offers an interpretation of these two modes of aesthetic perception and explores different possible relations between them.
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