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    Beauty and love are inseparable principles in the universe — Carmelics
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    Beauty and love are inseparable principles in the universe

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    • 1.Beauty is defined as that which delights the mind that recognizes it and moves it to love
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    • 2.Any discussion of beauty presupposes love, and any discussion of love presupposes beauty
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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Judgment distinguishes aesthetic pleasure from desire, showing beauty can be appreciated without love or longing.
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    • 2.The 'disinterested contemplation' required for genuine aesthetic judgment explicitly excludes the motivational pull that love entails.
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    • 3.If beauty requires no interest or desire, then beautiful objects can be recognized without generating the affective bond that constitutes love.
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    • 1.Plato's Symposium distinguishes Diotima's ladder: love uses beauty as a stepping stone to transcend particular beautiful objects entirely.
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    • 2.If love's telos is to abandon beautiful particulars for the Form of Beauty itself, then love and beauty are ultimately separable at love's highest stage.
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    In the thought of Judah Abrabanel, the concepts of beauty (bellezza) and love (amore) become technical terms through which he examines virtually every traditional philosophical issue. Frequently, however, his discussion of one of these terms is predicated on the existence of the other; as a result, beauty and love are inseparable in the Dialoghi, undoubtedly mirroring Judah’s understanding of the way in which these two principles operate in the universe. The intimate relationship between these t
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