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In the state of aesthetic perception, the subject of expe... — Carmelics

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In the state of aesthetic perception, the subject of experience assumes a universalistic quality

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1.The quality of the subject of experience must correspond to the quality of the object of experience
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2.In aesthetic perception, the objects of experience are universalistic
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1.Aesthetic perception is always perspectival and embodied, rooted in a particular perceiver's sensory and cultural situatedness.
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2.A subject cannot shed its particularity through attention alone, as Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception demonstrates.
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3.Therefore, the aesthetic subject retains individuality rather than dissolving into universality during perceptual engagement.
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1.The inference from universality of objects to universality of subjects commits the fallacy of assuming subject-object symmetry.
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2.Kant's analytic of the sublime shows that aesthetic experience intensifies self-awareness as a finite, particular subject confronting the infinite.
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Since Schopenhauer assumes that the quality of the subject of experience must correspond to the quality of the object of experience, he infers that in the state of aesthetic perception, where the objects are universalistic, the subject of experience must likewise assume a universalistic quality (WWR, Section 33). Aesthetic perception thus transforms an individually-oriented state of consciousness to a universally-oriented state of consciousness, or what Schopenhauer calls a pure will-less, painl

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