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The article presents a discussion on aesthetics and apolaustics. The term aesthetics, referring both to the knowledge derived from sense perception and the faculty that makes it possible, is attributed to German Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, while Immanuel Kant uses aesthetic judgement, necessary and universal referring to states of pleasure. Apolaustic means devoted to enjoyment. Aesthetics now focuses on the apolaustic experience of value and categories used to name it, including beauty.

Discusses the possible link between David Hume's aesthetics and Immanuel Kant's later thought. Translation of Kant's Antinomy into Humean language; Parallels between 'Of the Standard of Taste' and the Antinomy in the 'Analytic of the Beautiful'; Nature of reason in the epistemological and metaphysical positions each thinker develops.