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    A pleasant emotion arises when there is a sensible repres... — Carmelics
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    A pleasant emotion arises when there is a sensible representation of perfection accompanied by well-being of the body.

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    • 1.Each sensible rapture and each improved condition of the body fills the soul with the sensible representation of a perfection.
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    • 2.Every sensible representation brings with it some well-being of the body.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrates in the Critique of Judgment that aesthetic pleasure is disinterested, requiring no reference to the object's perfection or bodily well-being.
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    • 2.If pleasant emotion necessarily involved bodily well-being, the sublime—which Kant identifies as involving displeasure transcended—could not qualify as an aesthetic emotion at all.
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    • 3.Baumgarten's conflation of sensible perfection with pleasure collapses the distinction between the agreeable and the beautiful, which Kant shows are phenomenologically distinct.
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    • 1.Hume's account in 'Of the Standard of Taste' shows that trained critics can recognize beauty while experiencing minimal or negative bodily affect, undermining the necessity of bodily well-being.
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    • 2.The representation of tragic suffering in great art routinely produces what Hume calls 'mixed sentiments,' where painful emotion coexists with genuine aesthetic pleasure, falsifying the pleasant-emotion-requires-well-being claim.
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    each sensible rapture, each improved condition of the state of our body, fills the soul with the sensible representation of a perfection, then every sensible representation must also, in turn, bring with it some well-being of the body…And in this way a pleasant emotion [Affekt] arises.
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