An aesthetic essay by thi
An aesthetic essay by this philosopher ends by claiming that Racine's Athalie was ruined by the bigotry of the Catholic Church and claims that beauty is derived from the "joint verdict" of "true judge[s]." A book by this man ends with a paragraph discussing works containing "sophistry and illusion" that the reader must "commit to the flames." In the fourth section of that book, this man compared the "truths demonstrated by Euclid" with the proposition that the sun will not (*) rise tomorrow in distinguishing between "Relations of Ideas" and "Matters of Fact." This man argued that all ideas arise from "impressions" and discussed a problem about a missing shade of blue. For 10 points, name this Scottish empiricist and author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
An aesthetic essay by this philosopher ends by claiming that Racine's Athalie was ruined by the bigotry of the Catholic Church and claims that beauty is derived from the "joint verdict" of "true judge[s].