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    It is not the case that Beauty and love are inseparable principles in the universe

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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