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    Moritz, by contrast, locates beauty in the work's immanen... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Moritz's conception of beauty is essentially the same as Wolff's and Baumgarten's conception of beauty as 'sensible perfection'

    Moritz, by contrast, locates beauty in the work's immanent wholeness such that the perceiver must subordinate themselves to the artwork rather than subsuming it under cognitive faculties.

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    Moritz(as a philosopher being compared to Kant in the statement)
    Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793) was a German writer and philosopher who developed ideas about beauty and art around the same time as Kant, sometimes interpreted as disagreeing with Kant about whether beauty reveals truth.
    Perceiver(as used in philosophy of perception)
    A person or being that experiences something through their senses, like hearing a sound or seeing a color.
    Subordinate(legal philosophy)
    Lower in rank, importance, or authority; treated as less fundamental than something else.
    Subsuming(describing what the viewer should NOT do with the artwork)
    To include or absorb something into a larger category or system. In philosophy, it often means fitting something into existing mental frameworks or rules.

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    Wholeness(as a key concept in Daoist philosophy)
    The idea of everything being unified, undivided, and complete—without separations or distinctions between different things.
    cognitive faculties(referring to our ability to understand religious claims)
    Our mental abilities to think, reason, perceive, and understand—basically, the mental tools our brains use to figure out what's true.
    immanent(Rickert's epistemological framework)
    To carry the form of being-conscious (Bewußtheit), as understood relative to the epistemological subject

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