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Montesquieu on Taste and Pleasure by Giordano Bruno is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Montesquieu wrote an unfinished essay on taste that was found among his papers after his death. In the essay, he discusses three types of pleasures the soul can experience: those from its own existence, those from its union with the body, and those acquired from social institutions and conventions. He examines the sources of these pleasures in order to understand natural and acquired taste, and how they influence each other. Montesquieu also explores how our perceptions of beauty and art would differ if our
- Author
- Giordano Bruno
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- EN