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    A truly beautiful work of art must intimate the beauty of... — Carmelics
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    A truly beautiful work of art must intimate the beauty of soul rather than bodily beauty.

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    • 1.Bodily beauty is too closely connected with time and therefore cannot lift us out of the ordinary passage of time.
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    • 2.Only beauty that transcends the temporal can provide the non-fading pleasure that genuine aesthetic experience requires.
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    • 3.When we perceive represented beauty, a soul peers through the beauty — indicating that genuine beauty reveals soul, not body.
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    • 1.Kant's analytic of the beautiful holds that aesthetic judgment is grounded in free play of imagination and understanding, not in the intimation of moral or spiritual content.
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    • 2.Schiller's own account of 'naive' beauty acknowledges that unreflective sensuous form can achieve aesthetic completeness without any reference to soul or character.
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    • 3.A theory that requires art to intimate soul beauty conflates the aesthetic with the moral, violating the autonomy of aesthetic judgment that post-Kantian aesthetics labored to establish.
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    • 1.Winckelmann and the Greek sculptural tradition demonstrate that bodily beauty itself—proportion, form, grace—can directly express ideal humanity without requiring a 'soul' behind it.
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    • 2.If bodily form already embodies ideal rational order, the dichotomy between bodily and soul beauty collapses, undermining the claim's foundational distinction.
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    Furthermore, all ordinary sensuous pleasures are also momentary: “All sensible joys are only for the first glance” (“First Grove,” p. 134). The only way for an essentially static art to overcome the transitory nature of both what it depicts and of ordinary pleasures is by picking a beautiful moment which is as it were exempt from the actual transitoriness of an object’s history in real nature and our pleasure in which also does not fade like other pleasures do (“First Grove,” p. 137). In other w
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