جميلة, حنيفي2022-11-112022-11-112019-06-30ISSN:2352-9598http://ddeposit.univ-alger2.dz/handle/20.500.12387/2981This paper aims to shed light on the role of British Empiricism in shaping of the aesthetical theory during the eighteenth century,-In fact, this theory had a significant influence on the founding of Kant’ critical aesthetics-. I will tackle this topic through an exploration of the following eminent figures; A.Shaftesbury, F. Hutcheson, T. Reid, J. Addison, and E. Burke.ArAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Stateshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/Keywords: taste, harmony, beautiful, sublime, internal sensation, formArticle