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    It is not the case that Beauty arises from the arrangement of parts in a way fitted to produce pleasure in the soul.

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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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    • 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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