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    It is not the case that Artistic beauty is not in all regards superior to natural beauty.

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    • 1.Human artistry may concentrate beauty more than nature does in particular instances.
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    • 2.The beauty of nature as a whole exceeds the beauty of any single work of art.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment that natural beauty uniquely occasions free play of imagination without imposed purposive concepts.
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    • 2.Art always carries the trace of intentional design, which constrains aesthetic contemplation to the artist's determinative purposes.
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    • 3.This constraint means artistic beauty cannot fully instantiate the pure disinterested aesthetic experience that natural beauty affords.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hegel's claim that art surpasses nature assumes Spirit's self-expression is the highest value, but this privileging of mind over matter is contestable.
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    • 2.Natural beauty, as Adorno argues in Aesthetic Theory, retains an irreducible otherness that resists human conceptual domination.
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    • 3.This resistance to total appropriation gives natural beauty a moral and aesthetic dignity that humanly produced art structurally cannot possess.
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