De gustibus... Modern relativism when not treating all perspectives and dispositions as freely chosen determinations, or arbitrarily determined choices, constitutive of the self, considers them as wholly private responses akin to pure sensations in the obsolete empiricist sense. If it is less than consistent in simultaneously policing the results with escalating rigour, the contradiction is resolved by subjecting the judgments of consistency to the same uprooting. In all this taste becomes a psychosensory event rather than an index of aesthetic cultivation, although again the two are reconciled in the cult of the gustatory, side by side with the reduction of morality to taste. But what can you say about a discrimination of flavours other than to publish tasting notes, those enigmatic mappings of flavours onto themselves? The exalted place of these 'notes' is the contemporary destiny of the sensus communis(t), bearing in its intimate reflexivity all the metaphysical burden formerly weighing on the 'subject'.