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    Aesthetics must confine itself to understanding the work ... — Carmelics
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    Aesthetics must confine itself to understanding the work of artists and our experience of their work, without prescribing rules for how artists should produce beautiful works.

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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Judgment demonstrates that aesthetic judgments claim universal assent yet cannot be derived from determinate conceptual rules.
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    • 2.If aesthetic success cannot be captured by determinate rules, then any prescriptive aesthetics would distort rather than illuminate artistic production.
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    • 3.A discipline that distorts its subject matter fails its primary epistemic obligation, making descriptive aesthetics the only intellectually honest option.
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    • 1.Kant's concept of genius holds that fine art requires a talent that nature gives, which cannot itself be communicated by any precept or rule.
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    • 2.If the generative capacity underlying great art is by definition unteachable through rules, prescriptive aesthetics cannot achieve its stated normative purpose.
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    • 3.A discipline whose prescriptions are constitutively unable to produce the outcomes they target should redirect itself toward understanding rather than prescribing.
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    • 1.There are no general rules that artists can follow in order to produce beautiful or otherwise successful works.
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    We may now turn to Herder’s second main criticism of Lessing, hinted at in the first of the Groves of Criticism but more fully developed in the unpublished fourth Grove and the essay on Sculpture. The fourth Grove is cast as a critique of Riedel’s Theory of the Fine Sciences and Arts, as earlier noted, but also continues the debate with Lessing. Herder begins with several methodological objections to Riedel. First, although he otherwise admires Baumgarten, Herder criticizes Riedel’s acceptance o
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