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    Supports→Beauty in natural objects consists in manifoldness and unity alone, without any purposive dimension.

    Beauty in human productions depends on the harmony between the attitude expressed in the work and the goal or purpose of the work.

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    Beauty in natural objects consists in manifoldness and unity alone, without any ...We do not attribute purposes to natural objects.Without a purpose, only manifoldness and unity remain as constituents of beauty.

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    Five years after the Considerations, Herz developed this conception of beauty as objective but yielding only indeterminate rules for taste into the far more extensive Essay on Taste. Herz begins with what he considers to be a Baumgartian definition of beauty as the appearance of perfection in an object, where perfection in turn consists in the unity of a manifold. However, he adds that a work of art also has a Haltung, or expresses an attitude, and that its beauty also depends upon the harmony b

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