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O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? —William Butler Yeats, "Among School Children" In his 2009 book The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability, Stephen Darwall redefines moral obligation as inherently relational and interactive, rooted deeply in mutual accountability and...

In his 1760 essay “Of the Standard of Taste,” David Hume confronts the apparent contradiction between the subjective nature of aesthetic responses and the seemingly universal admiration afforded to certain works of art. Beauty, he contends, is not a property of the object but rather a sentiment produced in the...