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    It is not the case that Aesthetic experience can be conducive to the development of sound politics.

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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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    • 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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