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    General conclusions in aesthetics should be reached only ... — Carmelics
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    General conclusions in aesthetics should be reached only from close examination of examples of art and of our responses to them.

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    • 1.Herder's own method derives general conclusions from particular examples rather than from prior definitions.
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    • 2.Herder's most important aesthetic claims are grounded in detailed engagement with specific works, such as those of Ossian and Shakespeare.
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    • 1.Kant argues that aesthetic judgments claim universal assent yet cannot be grounded in empirical examples, which are always particular and contingent.
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    • 2.Inductive examination of artworks cannot yield the a priori principles that ground the normativity aesthetics requires.
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    • 1.Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics demonstrate that the philosophy of art requires a prior conceptual framework—the dialectic of Spirit—to determine which examples are even aesthetically relevant.
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    • 2.Without theoretical criteria, the selection of 'close examples' is arbitrary and cannot generate genuinely general conclusions.
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    We may now turn to Herder’s second main criticism of Lessing, hinted at in the first of the Groves of Criticism but more fully developed in the unpublished fourth Grove and the essay on Sculpture. The fourth Grove is cast as a critique of Riedel’s Theory of the Fine Sciences and Arts, as earlier noted, but also continues the debate with Lessing. Herder begins with several methodological objections to Riedel. First, although he otherwise admires Baumgarten, Herder criticizes Riedel’s acceptance o
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