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    It is not the case that If pleasant emotion necessarily involved bodily well-being, the sublime—which Kant identifies as involving displeasure transcended—could not qualify as an aesthetic emotion at all.

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    • 1.Displeasure at the sensory level need not entail bodily ill-being; mental transcendence can coexist with physical safety and health.
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    • 2.The claim conflates necessary bodily well-being with compatibility with bodily well-being—the sublime may not require it but allows it.
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    • 3.Many aesthetic emotions involve mixed or ambiguous bodily states that don't fit neatly into either well-being or ill-being categories.
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    • 1.Kant explicitly defines the sublime as involving a negative feeling (displeasure) at the limits of sensibility, distinguishing it from beauty.
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    • 2.If aesthetic emotions required bodily well-being, only harmonious sensations could count as aesthetic, excluding discomfort-based experiences.
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    • 3.The sublime's value lies precisely in transcending bodily comfort, making bodily well-being a false criterion for aesthetic experience.
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