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    Kant's own account in the Third Critique holds that aesth... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The experience of beauty is an awareness of the object's effect on our representational faculty, not an awareness of the cause of that effect in the object itself.

    Kant's own account in the Third Critique holds that aesthetic judgment makes a claim about the object ('this is beautiful'), not merely a report of inner sensation.

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    • 1.Kant distinguishes aesthetic judgment from mere sensation by claiming it demands universal agreement, which requires an objective claim about the object.
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    • 2.If aesthetic judgment were only subjective sensation, disagreements about beauty would be meaningless; yet we rationally debate aesthetic claims.
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    • 3.Kant's notion of 'purposiveness without purpose' attributes a formal property to the object itself, not just the subject's feeling.
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    • 1.Kant explicitly states beauty is not a property of objects but rests on the subject's reflective judgment, undermining objective object-claims.
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    • 2.Demanding universal agreement does not logically entail making a claim about objects; it could reflect a shared cognitive structure in subjects.
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    • 3.The 'purposiveness' Kant describes is a felt harmony, not an intrinsic feature discoverable through empirical investigation of the object.
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