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    It is not the case that In the state of aesthetic perception, the subject of experience assumes a universalistic quality

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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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    • 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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