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    It is not the case that Aesthetic pleasure is self-maintaining, unlike practical or sensory pleasures.

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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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    • 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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