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    A judgment of taste is not merely an idiosyncratic associ... — Carmelics
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    A judgment of taste is not merely an idiosyncratic association of pleasure with an object.

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    • 1.To call an object beautiful is to speak with a 'universal voice.'
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    • 2.Calling an object beautiful asserts that the pleasure taken in the object should be felt by anyone who properly responds to the object under ideal or optimal circumstances.
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    • 1.Bourdieu's empirical work demonstrates that aesthetic preferences track social class position with high predictability across large populations.
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    • 2.If aesthetic pleasure is causally structured by contingent socioeconomic conditioning, the 'universal voice' is ideological mystification of particular interests.
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    • 3.A judgment whose apparent universality is explained by shared conditioning rather than shared rational faculties cannot transcend idiosyncratic association.
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    • 1.Hume's 'standard of taste' shows that aesthetic verdicts vary systematically with cultural training, personal temperament, and historical context.
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    • 2.Systematic variation tied to contingent personal and cultural factors is the hallmark of idiosyncratic association, not universal normativity.
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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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