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    A judgment of taste — claiming an object is beautiful — i... — Carmelics
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    A judgment of taste — claiming an object is beautiful — is independent of any interest in the object's existence as physiologically agreeable or as good for some purpose.

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    • 1.Pleasure in a beautiful object occurs independently of the object being physiologically agreeable.
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    • 2.Pleasure in a beautiful object occurs independently of the object satisfying a determinate concept of utility or morality.
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    • 1.Dewey argues in 'Art as Experience' that aesthetic experience is continuous with ordinary biological and practical experience, not severed from it.
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    • 2.If aesthetic pleasure emerges from the same sensory and embodied apparatus that generates physiological pleasure, their independence cannot be categorically maintained.
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    • 3.Kant's 'free beauty' versus 'dependent beauty' distinction already concedes that most aesthetic judgments involve conceptual and purposive interests, undermining the universal scope of disinterestedness.
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    • 1.Bourdieu's empirical sociology demonstrates that aesthetic taste systematically correlates with class position, education, and material interest, suggesting interest is structurally embedded in taste judgments.
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    • 2.If what agents report as disinterested aesthetic pleasure is causally produced by social interests they do not consciously recognize, the phenomenology of disinterest cannot establish its actual independence from interest.
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    Starting from the claim that Francis Hutcheson had made in 1725 and Mendelssohn reintroduced in 1785, Kant begins his analysis of the judgment of taste, that is, our claim that a particular object is beautiful, from the premise that our pleasure in a beautiful object occurs independently of any interest in the existence of the object as physiologically agreeable (CPJ, §3, 5:205–7) or as good for some purpose expressed by a determinate concept of utility or morality (CPJ, §4, 5:207–9). But neithe
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