University of Tabriz Journal of Philosophical Investigations 2251-7960 13 26 2019 05 22 The Relationship between Morals and Aesthetics in Hume’s Philosophy The Relationship between Morals and Aesthetics in Hume’s Philosophy 395 421 8465 10.22034/jpiut.2019.8465 FA Zolfagar Hemmati Assistant Professor, 3 Allameh Institute of Islamic & Humanities sciences, University of Tabriz 0000-0002-6985-400X Jalal Peykani Associate Professor, University of Payam-e noor Mustafa Shahraeini Associate Professor of Philosophy Department, University of Tabriz Mahmoud Soufiani Assistant Professor, University of Tabriz Journal Article 2018 11 17 During the history of philosophy, morals and beauty, and finding a diagnostic criterion for them, was a very important problem for philosophers. Most of the philosophers maintained that such criterion rooted in reason, but Hume presented a noble idea and said that moral sense based on feeling and sentiment. Everything which through its utility or beauty, leads to pleaser is virtuous. Sometimes directly and sometimes through the beauty and appearing beautiful, the utility leads to pleaser. Also, according to Hume, beauty is a subjective thing measured by the criterion of the pleaser. Thus, pleaser and pain are the criteria of taste and sentiment to the diagnosis of virtue and vice, as well as, the beauty and value of art. <br />In this paper, after comparing and monitoring morals and beauty from four aspects, through brief surveying of certain commentators of Hume, we attempt to explain the relationship between beauty, utility, and pleaser. Finally, we assert that the beauty is very important components in Hume’s explain of Morals, but at the same time aesthetics has no superiority to morals; and thus, we defend the originality of morals to aesthetics. During the history of philosophy, morals and beauty, and finding a diagnostic criterion for them, was a very important problem for philosophers. Most of the philosophers maintained that such criterion rooted in reason, but Hume presented a noble idea and said that moral sense based on feeling and sentiment. Everything which through its utility or beauty, leads to pleaser is virtuous. Sometimes directly and sometimes through the beauty and appearing beautiful, the utility leads to pleaser. Also, according to Hume, beauty is a subjective thing measured by the criterion of the pleaser. Thus, pleaser and pain are the criteria of taste and sentiment to the diagnosis of virtue and vice, as well as, the beauty and value of art. <br />In this paper, after comparing and monitoring morals and beauty from four aspects, through brief surveying of certain commentators of Hume, we attempt to explain the relationship between beauty, utility, and pleaser. Finally, we assert that the beauty is very important components in Hume’s explain of Morals, but at the same time aesthetics has no superiority to morals; and thus, we defend the originality of morals to aesthetics. https://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_8465_b978fa09eaf59366a0f14671e2464b44.pdf