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A Philosophical Inquiry (On Taste), by Edmund Burke

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Jan 12, 2022 • 45m

A Turkish sultan, relates Burke, when shown a picture of the beheaded John the Baptist, praised many things, but pointed out one gruesome defect. Did this observation show the sultan to be an inferior judge of art? (Volume 24, Harvard Classics)

Edmund Burke born Jan. 12, 1729.

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