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    Fine art aims to produce pleasure — Carmelics
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    Fine art aims to produce pleasure

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    • 1.Fine art sets our cognitive powers into activity through formal and material beauties
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    • 2.Fine art arouses our deepest feelings
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    • 1.Kant argues that genuine aesthetic judgment requires disinterested contemplation, which pleasure-seeking as a goal actively undermines.
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    • 2.If art aims at pleasure, it collapses into mere agreeableness, losing the universal validity that distinguishes aesthetic from sensory judgment.
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    • 1.Hegel contends that fine art's highest vocation is the sensuous presentation of Absolute Spirit, a cognitive-spiritual task irreducible to pleasure.
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    • 2.Art that achieves its deepest purpose—as in Greek tragedy or religious painting—often produces suffering, awe, or catharsis rather than pleasure.
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    Sulzer also develops a complex theory of the value of fine art. Fine art aims to produce pleasure both by setting our cognitive powers into activity through the formal and material beauties of its products and by arousing our deepest feelings. Since the aim of morality is human happiness, art has immediate moral value just because it sets our mental powers into enjoyable activity. But its ability to arouse our emotions also gives art indirect moral value through its capacity to enliven and make
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