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A work of art cannot be beautiful if it conveys an attitu... — Carmelics

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A work of art cannot be beautiful if it conveys an attitude contrary to morality.

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1.Moral standing of the subject matter is a constraint on aesthetic value.
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2.An attitude contrary to morality undermines the aesthetic dignity required for beauty.
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1.Aesthetic form, compositional harmony, and expressive intensity are evaluable independently of the moral content they convey.
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2.Kant's analysis of beauty as disinterested pleasure deliberately excludes moral approval as a criterion of aesthetic judgment.
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3.A work depicting vice with technical mastery and formal coherence can elicit genuine aesthetic pleasure regardless of its moral stance.
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1.Schiller argued that art achieves its highest function precisely by representing morally difficult or transgressive content through the ennobling power of aesthetic form.
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2.If immoral attitudes expressed with aesthetic excellence could not be beautiful, tragedies celebrating fatalistic or amoral worldviews—which historically have been judged beautiful—would be misevaluated.
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However, in his classroom lectures on the Aesthetica, Baumgarten particularly emphasized the moral magnitude of the subject matter of works of art as a major source of our pleasure in them, and there mentions that works of art will therefore be touching, that is to say, emotionally moving. Baumgarten stressed that the moral content of a work of art is only one source of beauty, and that a work of art can be beautiful without any moral grandeur. “[A]esthetic dignity,” he claimed, “belongs to aest

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