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    It is part of the aim of art to arouse the passions — Carmelics
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    It is part of the aim of art to arouse the passions

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    • 1.The passions have a strong influence on sensible cognition
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    • 2.The passions are themselves a great source of sensible pleasure
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    • 1.Art's highest aim is the cultivation of rational autonomy, which passion systematically undermines by overriding reflective judgment.
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    • 2.Kant's aesthetic theory holds that genuine aesthetic pleasure requires disinterested contemplation, incompatible with passionate arousal.
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    • 3.If arousing passion were art's aim, propaganda and sensationalism would count as paradigm artworks, which is a reductio of the claim.
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    • 1.Aristotle's catharsis suggests art aims to purge or regulate the passions, not merely arouse them, making arousal instrumental at best.
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    • 2.The Stoic tradition, influential in early modern aesthetics, holds that passions are cognitive errors art should correct rather than amplify.
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    Baumgarten did not extensively develop his comment that art must be touching, but this became central to Meier’s aesthetics. In his early work on the emotions, Meier emphasized that aesthetics should deal with the passions because they have a “strong influence on sensible cognition.” His position is not just that the passions have influence on sensible cognition, but that they are themselves a great source of sensible pleasure, and that it is therefore part of the aim of art to arouse them. Meie
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