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    Every aesthetic ordering of the world brings with it a conception of human freedom and suggests ways to use human freedom.

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    • 1.The capacity to disclose the world is rooted in the ethical or religious nature of human beings.
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    • 2.The work of art brings to a higher level of reflexivity and consistency the innate human capacity to disclose the world.
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    • 3.Every revelation of the world in the metaphysical sense entails a revelation of the fundamental ethical project underpinning that perception.
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    • 1.Kant's aesthetic theory establishes that genuine aesthetic judgment operates under a purposiveness without purpose, bracketing all practical and ethical interests.
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    • 2.If aesthetic experience constitutively excludes interest and purpose, it cannot simultaneously prescribe or disclose a conception of freedom as its content.
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    • 3.Schopenhauer reinforces this: aesthetic contemplation is precisely the temporary suspension of will and striving, not their orientation or ordering.
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    • 1.Clement Greenberg's formalist tradition holds that the significance of aesthetic works is exhausted by their internal formal relations, not by existential or ethical disclosure.
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    • 2.If artworks that achieve their aesthetic aims through pure form alone are genuine counterexamples, the claim that every aesthetic ordering entails a freedom-conception is falsified.
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    If that is true, however, then every “revelation” of the world in the first, metaphysical sense also entails a revelation of the fundamental ethical (or, as the existentialists preferred, existential) project underpinning this perception. This answers, then, the second part of the question regarding the relation between the work of art and the ethical aspect of freedom. For the existentialists, as we saw, the work of art brings to a higher level of reflexivity and consistency the innate capacity
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    Kant's aesthetic theory establishes that genuine aesthetic judgment operates und...
    Schopenhauer reinforces this: aesthetic contemplation is precisely the temporary...
    The capacity to disclose the world is rooted in the ethical or religious nature ...
    The work of art brings to a higher level of reflexivity and consistency the inna...
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