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    If the audience's own expressive powers are mobilised, th... — Carmelics
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    If the audience's own expressive powers are mobilised, the experience becomes interested and personal, corrupting the universality of aesthetic judgment.

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    • 1.Kant's aesthetic judgment requires disinterestedness: personal engagement transforms aesthetic into personal preference.
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    • 2.Universal aesthetic claims depend on transcending individual expression; activating audience creativity introduces subjective variation.
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    • 3.Mobilizing expressive powers invokes the audience's particular skills and identity, inherently particularizing what should be universal.
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    • 1.Universal aesthetic judgment may require active interpretation, not passive reception—shared expressive capacities enable genuine intersubjectivity.
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    • 2.Personal engagement and universality aren't opposed: everyone's expressive mobilization might reveal common human capacities and responses.
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    • 3.The claim assumes a false dichotomy between 'interested' (personal) and 'universal'—interests can be widely shared rather than idiosyncratic.
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