id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4935 Four Dissertations - Wikipedia .html text/html 1410 132 61 The Natural History of Religion[edit] However, Hume argues that there is a common mechanism in human nature that gives rise to, and often even provides justification for, such judgments. He takes this aesthetic sense to be quite similar to the moral sense for which he argues in his Book 3 of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740) and in An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). Each person is a combination of these of two sources, and Hume endeavours to delineate the admirable qualities of a critic, that they might augment their natural sense of beauty into a reliable faculty of judgment. "David Hume Essays, Moral, Political and Literary", The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, J. "Hume's Aesthetics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2006 Edition), Edward N. ^ David Hume, The Natural History of Religion. ^ Hume, Natural History, p. On-line edition of The Natural History of Religion ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4935.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4935.txt