Common standards of taste, when cultivated or realized in a society, coordinate the breadth and refinement of the educated with the natural simplicity and originality of the less educated.
An improvement or narrowing down of a concept that makes it more precise or adds extra requirements beyond the original version.
Standards of taste(as used in aesthetics)
Shared agreements in a society about what is beautiful, good, or worth appreciating—like how people collectively decide which music, art, or literature is valuable.
The educated vs. the less educated(as used in social philosophy and aesthetics)
A distinction between people who have formal schooling and cultural training versus those with less formal education but who may have natural insight and authentic perspective.
Sixth and finally, in the brief “Appendix on the methodology of taste,” Kant suggests that the cultivation or realization of common standards of taste in a society can be conducive to the discovery of the more general “art of the reciprocal communication of the ideas of the most educated part” of a society “with the cruder, the coordination of the breadth and refinement of the former with the natural simplicity and originality of the latter” (CPJ, §60, 5:356), where this art is apparently necess