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    Kant's concept of beauty is essentially the same as Wolff... — Carmelics
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    Kant's concept of beauty is essentially the same as Wolff's and Moritz's conception of beauty

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    • 1.Kant's concept of 'purposiveness without purpose' is, according to Moritz, nothing other than an 'ideal purpose'
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    • 2.Moritz's conception of beauty aligns with Wolff's conception of beauty as sensible perfection
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    • 1.Kant explicitly rejects Wolff's rationalist reduction of beauty to sensible perfection, arguing perfection requires a determinate concept of what the object ought to be.
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    • 2.For Kant, beauty involves a free play of imagination and understanding with no determinate concept, making it categorically distinct from Wolffian perfection judgments.
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    • 3.Kant's Critique of Judgment §15 directly argues that beauty and perfection are incompatible predicates, a distinction Wolff's framework cannot accommodate.
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    • 1.Moritz grounds beauty in the self-sufficiency of the artwork as a completed whole serving its own internal purpose, a teleology still governed by the object's intrinsic ends.
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    • 2.Kant's purposiveness without purpose is a subjective condition of the judging subject's mental state, not an objective property or internal teleology of the artwork itself.
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    • 3.Collapsing Moritz's objective internal purposiveness with Kant's subjective reflective judgment conflates an ontological claim about artworks with an epistemological claim about aesthetic experience.
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    In 1791, Moritz dedicated a review of the Essay on Taste by “our mutual friend” Herz to Salomon Maimon, another Jewish intellectual who had arisen to prominence in Berlin from beginnings even more unpromising than those of Mendelssohn and Herz. Here he manifests his own allegiance to Wolff and Baumgarten, arguing that his conception of beauty as the internal perfection of a work of art as it strikes the senses and imagination is essentially the same as their conception of beauty as “sensible per
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