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    Aesthetic experience can be conducive to the development ... — Carmelics
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    Aesthetic experience can be conducive to the development of sound politics.

    Aesthetics
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    • 1.The art of reciprocal communication between educated and less educated members of society is necessary to the realization of lawful sociability.
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    • 2.Lawful sociability is the establishment of a stable polity on the basis of principles of justice rather than sheer force.
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    • 3.Cultivation of common standards of taste contributes to this art of reciprocal communication.
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    • 1.Aesthetic cultivation historically presupposes leisured, propertied classes whose taste norms encode class domination rather than universal principles.
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    • 2.When dominant aesthetic standards are mistaken for universal ones, they naturalize existing hierarchies and foreclose rather than enable genuine political equality.
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    • 3.Schiller's own aesthetic education program presupposes a prior political stability it purports to create, rendering it circular and practically inert for unjust regimes.
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    • 1.Plato's Republic demonstrates that aesthetic experience can just as readily cultivate dangerous emotional dispositions that undermine rational political judgment.
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    • 2.The Kantian disinterestedness required for genuine aesthetic experience is structurally incompatible with the partisan interest and contestation essential to democratic politics.
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    Sixth and finally, in the brief “Appendix on the methodology of taste,” Kant suggests that the cultivation or realization of common standards of taste in a society can be conducive to the discovery of the more general “art of the reciprocal communication of the ideas of the most educated part” of a society “with the cruder, the coordination of the breadth and refinement of the former with the natural simplicity and originality of the latter” (CPJ, §60, 5:356), where this art is apparently necess
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