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    Beauty requires that an object possess both extensive cla... — Carmelics
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    Beauty requires that an object possess both extensive clarity (richness and variety) and sufficient unity to be grasped as a whole.

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    • 1.Neither fully distinct nor fully obscure concepts are compatible with the feeling of beauty.
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    • 2.Extensive clarity stimulates perception by offering richness and variety.
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    • 3.Unity allows the perceiver to take in the object as a whole with equilibrium and proportion.
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    • 1.Certain minimalist works—Rothko's color fields, Cage's 4'33''—achieve beauty through radical reduction of variety, not extensive richness.
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    • 2.Beauty grounded in singular, undifferentiated qualities demonstrates that extensive clarity is a sufficient but not necessary condition for aesthetic experience.
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    • 3.A theory that cannot account for the beauty of simplicity conflates the conditions for one species of beauty with the conditions for beauty as such.
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    • 1.The sublime, as Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment, produces aesthetic pleasure precisely through overwhelming unity and resisting comprehension as a whole.
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    • 2.If genuine aesthetic value can arise from the failure of synthesis, then unity is not a necessary condition for beauty but merely one aesthetic mode among several.
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    Mendelssohn worked within the framework of Wolffian metaphysics and psychology, and thus he accepted the definition of sensible perception as clear but confused cognition. He accepted Wolff’s explanation that pleasure arises in the sensible perception of perfection, but also Baumgarten’s transformation of that formula into the explanation of beauty as the perfection of sensible cognition: in Mendelssohn’s terms, “the essence of the fine arts and sciences consists in an artful, sensibly perfect r
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