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    It is not the case that A mind in possession of qualities such as power, knowledge, wisdom, virtue, and magnanimity is really beautiful.

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    • 1.Beauty is a perceptual property constituted by sensory form, not by moral or intellectual excellence (Kant, Critique of Judgment §16).
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    • 2.Conflating moral goodness with aesthetic beauty commits a category error that corrupts the autonomy of aesthetic judgment.
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    • 3.A virtuous mind may be admirable or estimable without thereby being beautiful in any aesthetically meaningful sense.
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    • 1.Hutcheson argued beauty requires a perceiver's disinterested pleasure in uniformity-amidst-variety, independent of known utility or moral worth.
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    • 2.If mental qualities like wisdom and virtue ground beauty, then beauty collapses into moral approbation, eliminating it as a distinct faculty.
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    • 3.Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste' treats moral and aesthetic verdicts as operationally separate, requiring different corrective procedures.
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    • 1.There is a real intrinsic excellence in some qualities of mind, such as power, knowledge, wisdom, virtue, and magnanimity.
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    • 2.Real intrinsic excellence in qualities of mind constitutes genuine beauty in the mind that possesses them.
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