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    Aesthetic pleasure is self-maintaining, unlike practical ... — Carmelics
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    Aesthetic pleasure is self-maintaining, unlike practical or sensory pleasures.

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    • 1.Practical pleasures (pleasure in the good) require an action or object to maintain themselves.
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    • 2.Sensory pleasures (pleasure in the agreeable) require an action or object to maintain themselves.
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    • 3.Aesthetic pleasure does not require an external action or object to sustain itself.
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    • 1.Schopenhauer argued aesthetic contemplation requires sustained suppression of the will, an active effortful process dependent on continuous psychological conditions.
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    • 2.If aesthetic pleasure requires ongoing cognitive labor to maintain will-lessness, it depends on a self-sustaining mental act no less demanding than practical attention.
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    • 3.A pleasure that collapses without active psychological maintenance is not self-sustaining in any meaningful sense distinct from practical pleasure.
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    • 1.Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics holds that aesthetic experience is constituted by rhythmic tension and consummation within an organism-environment transaction.
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    • 2.Because aesthetic experience in Dewey's account requires continuous perceptual engagement with an external object to sustain its qualitative character, it is not self-maintaining but environmentally dependent.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's premise that aesthetic pleasure requires no external object to sustain itself therefore conflates the absence of instrumental action with the absence of object-dependence.
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    Aesthetic feeling is open-ended and future-oriented. In contrast to practical pleasures (the “pleasure in the good”) and to private, sensory pleasures (the “pleasure in the agreeable”) that need to bring forth an action or an object in order to maintain themselves, aesthetic pleasure is self-maintaining. This is partly because aesthetically enjoying an object involves a commitment to remain faithful to the beauty of that object, beauty that calls for and deserves an open-ended affective pursuit.
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