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Beauty arises from the arrangement of parts in a way fitt... — Carmelics

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Beauty arises from the arrangement of parts in a way fitted to produce pleasure in the soul.

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1.An order and construction of parts can be fitted to give pleasure by the primary constitution of our nature, by custom, or by caprice.
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2.Such an arrangement is what constitutes beauty.
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1.Beauty is perceived as a property of the object itself, not reducible to the pleasure it produces in a subject.
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2.Kant argued that judgments of beauty claim universal assent, which mere pleasure-production, varying by constitution and caprice, cannot ground.
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3.If beauty were constituted by pleasure-production, two observers with different constitutions could not genuinely disagree about whether an object is beautiful.
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1.Plotinus held that simple things like a single color or a musical note can be beautiful, yet possess no arrangement of parts to produce pleasure.
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2.If beauty requires arrangement of parts, it cannot account for the beauty of simple, unitary, or formless entities recognized across aesthetic traditions.
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Beauty is such an order and construction of parts as, either by the primary constitution of our nature, by custom, or by caprice, is fitted to give a pleasure and satisfaction to the soul. … Pleasure and pain, therefore, are not only necessary attendants of beauty and deformity, but constitute their very essence. (Hume 1740, 299)

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