 Certain features of Hutcheson’s moral philosophy appear in his aesthetic theory also. Indeed the two fields are inextricably related, as witness Hutcheson’s reference to the ‘moral sense of beauty’. Two features especially work hard. He contends that we sense the beauty, sublimity or grandeur of a sight or of a sound. The sense of the thing’s beauty, so to say, wells up unbidden. And associated with that sense, and perhaps even part of it — Hutcheson does not give us a clear account of the matter — is a pleasure that we take in the thing. We enjoy beautiful things and that enjoyment is not merely incidental to our sensing their beauty.