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    Challenges→The beauty associated with an ideal cannot be a vague, indeterminate beauty, but must be a beauty fixed by a concept of objective purposiveness.

    A beauty 'fixed by concept' would be a beauty determined by the understanding, but Schiller holds that such determination destroys the living unity characteristic of genuine aesthetic experience.

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    Key Terms

    Schiller(the philosopher being discussed)
    Friedrich Schiller was an 18th-century German philosopher and poet who believed that art and beauty play a crucial role in human development and freedom.
    aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics)
    A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.
    concept(Empiricist tradition)
    A mental representation formed from copies of sensory representations, assembled in accordance with general-purpose learning rules.
    determined by the understanding(as describing what happens when beauty is 'fixed by concept')
    Controlled or completely explained by rational thought and logical rules rather than felt spontaneously.
    living unity

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    (as the quality Schiller believes authentic beauty has)
    A feeling of wholeness and aliveness that comes from experiencing something as a complete, integrated thing rather than as separate parts analyzed by rules.

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