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    It is not the case that Ancient Greek art was excellent

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    • 1.Herder argued that each culture produces art excellences relative to its own climate, history, and Volksgeist, with no transhistorical standard of artistic greatness.
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    • 2.If aesthetic value is culturally constituted rather than universal, then 'excellent' applied to Greek art smuggles in an illegitimate cross-cultural normative claim.
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    • 3.The supporting arguments themselves appeal to Greek-specific natural and cultural conditions, which undermines the universality required to rank Greek art as objectively excellent.
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    • 1.Winckelmann's judgments of Greek art were based almost entirely on Roman copies and plaster casts, not original Greek works.
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    • 2.Aesthetic evaluations derived from systematically misidentified objects cannot ground reliable claims about the excellence of the original tradition.
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    • 1.Nature in ancient Greece was particularly favorable to the development of beautiful bodies
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    • 2.The natural way of life in Greece was particularly favorable to the observation of beautiful bodies and thus to their imitation in art
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    • 3.Greek thought and character were particularly noble, making the external beauty of Greek bodies an expression of the beauty of the Greek mind
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