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    A painted rose by Huysum is more admirable than a river's... — Carmelics
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    A painted rose by Huysum is more admirable than a river's reflection of a rose.

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    • 1.Works of art display the perfection of the artist's rational spirit.
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    • 2.A river's reflection is a mere similarity produced by a lifeless thing.
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    • 3.The perfection of rational beings is elevated above the perfection of lifeless things.
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    • 1.Natural phenomena, being uncaused by human intention, cannot be evaluated by standards of craft or artifice, making comparison category-mistaken.
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    • 2.Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment that free natural beauty is superior to adherent beauty, which is constrained by a concept of purpose.
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    • 3.A reflection's beauty is free beauty (pulchritudo vaga), while Huysum's painting is adherent beauty judged against a prior concept of 'correct rose.'
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    • 1.Schopenhauer holds that natural objects more purely instantiate Platonic Ideas than artworks, which are mediated by individual artistic will.
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    • 2.The river's reflection, being unmediated by human intention, presents the Idea of the rose with less distortion than a painter's selective rendering.
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    All works of art are visible imprints of the artist’s abilities which, so to speak, put his entire soul on display and make it known to us. This perfection of spirit arouses an uncommonly greater pleasure than mere similarity, because it is more worthy and far more complex than similarity. It is all the more worthy the more that the perfection of rational beings is elevated above the perfection of lifeless things, and also more complex because many abilities of the soul and often diverse skills
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