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    It is not the case that An independent grasp of and commitment to fundamental moral principles is necessary even given art's natural tendency toward moral good.

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    • 1.Schiller argues in 'Aesthetic Education' that the aesthetic drive (Spieltrieb) already reconciles sensuous and formal impulses, generating moral freedom intrinsically.
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    • 2.If aesthetic experience constitutively produces the conditions for moral autonomy, then independent moral grounding is not a prerequisite but a byproduct of aesthetic cultivation.
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    • 1.Hutcheson's moral sense theory holds that benevolent affective responses are immediate and non-inferential, requiring no prior rational moral principles to function reliably.
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    • 2.If moral perception operates through trained sentiment rather than independent rational commitment, art's cultivation of sentiment is sufficient for moral orientation without prior principled grounding.
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    • 1.Art can be put to perverse and immoral use as well as healthy and good use.
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    • 2.Without independent moral grounding, aesthetic experience's natural tendency to morally good outcomes can be perverted.
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