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    A merely useful object is not in itself whole or complete — Carmelics
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    A merely useful object is not in itself whole or complete

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    • 1.A useful object is considered only as a means to an end
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    • 2.The end of a useful object is the subject whose perfection is promoted by it, not the object itself
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    • 3.What is only a means to something else lacks intrinsic completeness
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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of function (ergon) holds that an object achieves its fullest being precisely when it excellently fulfills its proper function.
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    • 2.A knife that cuts perfectly or a lyre that sounds beautifully instantiates a complete formal unity of matter, form, and telos.
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    • 3.If functional excellence constitutes a kind of wholeness, then utility and intrinsic completeness are compatible rather than opposed.
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    • 1.Hegel argued in the Lectures on Aesthetics that craft objects can embody rational purposiveness, making their use-character an expression of spirit rather than a deficiency.
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    • 2.An object whose form is perfectly adequate to its end exhibits the very coherence between inner concept and outer expression that Hegel identifies with completeness.
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    the convenience or comfortableness that accrues to myself or another through the use of it…i.e., I consider it merely as a means, for which I myself, in so far as my perfection is thereby promoted, am the end. The merely useful object is thus in itself nothing whole or complete.
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