1. Intro
I start to think about what is good, what is right. When we appreciate art, we have subjective opinion, does the art work itself has objective good property?
This is a problem I thought before, back then, I thought good is subjective, it represent a moral standard that teach by society. I think that works well for my daily decision making, helped me do the “good” thing, that is something that help my life goal (a world closer to my imagination)
Now I am reconsidering this question since I am learning art, music and food etc, these are topics more “human”. In the process, I always had questions like
- Why this is good, why people like it
- Who decide good or not
- Do I like it, why I like it or not
- Should I change my mind to follow others
- What is the taste, is that just preference? A sum of someone’s past
2. Taste
I think taste is part of you. I think taste should be considered more or less, not good or bad.
Definition of taste (my version): preference on something
You need to experience all kinds of thing then you know what you like. For example, to have a taste of music, people should first listen to enough music, and then they can tell which one they like more. Its non-sense to compare thing that you even know.
Good taste: for daily life, I think good taste means someone experienced more than normal people and still in a relative understandable scale so that other would feel like “that’s good”, a new but acceptable experience.
