Hume e la bellezza del sistema copernicano

critical studies, Hume's relationship with Copernicus has rarely
been examined and little space has been given to an analysis of the function
that Hume assigns to the problem of moral feeling, moral beauty, and taste
and to Milton's poetry. The purpose of the following pages will be precisely
to investigate this relationship. The thesis that will emerge will be that the
judgment on Copernicus is not pronounced only from a purely logical point
of view but is also based on elements of Hume's moral and aesthetic theory
of sentiment, taste and beauty.
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