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    It is not the case that A truly beautiful work of art must intimate the beauty of soul rather than bodily beauty.

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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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    • 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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