Sentido y alcance del concepto de “gusto”

The meaning of taste was considered from many perspectives during the modern era, which is evidence of its inexhaustible significance. Recognized as a criterion of aesthetic attitude, it plays a moral as well as a religious roll, transcending mere sensibility and manifesting a broad and rich nature. Its practical origin as a criterion of flavor confirms its essentiality. Being the first judgement of all that is good, it expresses perhaps the source of the understanding of human existence. Taste is a sense that appears as a philosophical object during the 17th century, displacing sight from its position of pre-eminence, to help form an idea of the human being that was conceived, reformulated, and reinterpreted during the 18th century. The meaning and scope of the concept of taste is decisive not only as a sign of its philosophical relevance, but also because this importance reveals a type of knowledge that seems still unexplored.