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    Hutcheson cannot infer that mind alone is beautiful from ... — Carmelics
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    Hutcheson cannot infer that mind alone is beautiful from the premise that things are beautiful owing to the effect of mind

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    • 1.Hume's distinction between cause and object of a mental state shows that what produces beauty need not itself possess beauty.
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    • 2.Hutcheson's own empiricist framework treats beauty as a relational property between perceiver and object, not a property of the perceiving mind itself.
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    • 3.Conflating the causal origin of a perception with the intentional object of that perception commits the genetic fallacy in aesthetics.
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    • 1.In Hutcheson's idealist-adjacent framework, the 'internal sense' is the faculty that registers beauty, not the locus where beauty resides.
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    • 2.Locke's primary/secondary quality distinction, which Hutcheson adapts, implies that a quality's mind-dependence does not make the mind itself the bearer of that quality.
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    • 1.Hutcheson does not hold that objects of beauty are necessarily internal
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    • 2.The inference from 'beauty is caused by mind' to 'only mind is beautiful' requires the additional premise that objects of beauty are necessarily internal
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    It is in arguing for the internality of the power of discerning beauty that Hutcheson’s departure from Shaftesbury begins to show. Shaftesbury, it will be recalled, argues that the discernment of beauty is internal (or mental) on the grounds that the objects of beauty necessarily are: mind alone can discern beauty because mind alone is beautiful, external objects managing a degree of beauty only by having a bit of mind imprinted on them. But Hutcheson cannot make this argument because he does no
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