According to Hume, would we be able to view cinema as art, whether early or contemporary? Is cinema not refined enough for Hume’s view? Movies are something seen by everyone and everyone has a different opinion about them. I feel they completely contradict his view.

I feel that, were Hume alive today, he would view only high cinema as art, but that he would completely disregard popular culture films or television like Doctor Who or Harry Potter. Hume would focus more on classical films which would have more refined tastes. But these are films that not everybody likes (especially in the modern age when black and white is less favored to color by the majority).

I think Hume would have to reinvent his view or write an alternative essay just for film because it is very tricky and cannot be completely agreed upon as good or bad art. Film might also shatter his philosophy of human beings as having standards of taste because anyone out there can enjoy films, with or without a full education. And people with a complete education were the type Hume was looking at when he sought to find those who would agree upon a certain piece of art. Therefore, cinema has partially made Hume's philosophy obsolete but the analysis of films by film critics is still something which is agreed upon.

The critique of art by "professionals" will, in some ways, never change, but the appreciation of it and the sentiment felt by it will be every changing depending upon the human beings experiencing it.