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    Francis Hutcheson, Shaftesbury's direct intellectual heir... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Material things can truly be beautiful, even if Shaftesbury's characters sometimes seem to suggest otherwise.

    Francis Hutcheson, Shaftesbury's direct intellectual heir, systematically extended inner-sense beauty to material objects while preserving the core unity-in-variety criterion.

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    • 1.Hutcheson explicitly defined beauty as unity-in-variety in sense objects, directly extending Shaftesbury's moral sense framework to aesthetics.
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    • 2.Hutcheson's internal sense model coherently applies to material objects without abandoning the unified principle that grounded Shaftesbury's ethics.
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    • 3.Historical evidence shows Hutcheson systematically developed what Shaftesbury left implicit about beauty in nature and art through internal sense.
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    • 1.Shaftesbury's 'inner sense' was primarily moral/aesthetic intuition about harmony; extending it to material objects represents significant theoretical rupture.
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    • 2.Unity-in-variety, though preserved linguistically, operates differently when applied to moral virtue versus visual patterns—not a seamless extension.
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    • 3.Hutcheson introduced novel apparatus (standardized observers, mathematical proportions) absent from Shaftesbury, suggesting departure, not mere systematization.
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