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    Imagination is not always necessary for discovering beauty. — Carmelics
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    Imagination is not always necessary for discovering beauty.

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    • 1.There exists a small class of cases where initial impressions of the mere form of a material object generate approbation.
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    • 2.In these cases, no imaginative association is needed to recognize beauty.
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    • 1.Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment that aesthetic judgment always involves the free play of imagination and understanding, with no exceptions.
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    • 2.If imagination is constitutive of the very faculty by which beauty is apprehended, cases of 'mere form' approbation still implicitly engage imagination.
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    • 3.Therefore, what Hume identifies as imagination-free responses are better characterized as cases where imaginative activity is rapid and unconscious, not absent.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's concept of 'seeing-as' entails that perceiving an object as beautiful is always a perceptual interpretation, not a passive reception of form.
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    • 2.Interpretive perception of the kind required for aesthetic response necessarily involves imaginative projection of meaning onto sensory data.
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    • 3.Hume's 'mere form' cases fail to distinguish between brute sensation and the aesthetically structured experience required for genuine approbation.
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    Hume recognizes a very small class of cases for which imaginative association is not needed to recognize beauty. In these cases, initial impressions of the mere “form” of a material object generate approbation (T, 364). Such cases are more typical of natural beauty than art (EPM, 173). So imagination is not always necessary for discovering beauty. Pleasing form is sometimes sufficient. However, “’tis seldom we rest there” (T, 363).
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