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    It is not the case that Moritz explicitly rejects the teleological framework underlying Wolff and Baumgarten's perfection, denying that beauty serves any external cognitive or moral purpose.

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    • 1.Moritz still connects beauty to human flourishing and character development, suggesting purposiveness remains present even if unstated.
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    • 2.His rejection of explicit teleology may be rhetorical rather than substantive; beauty's effects on taste and judgment imply latent purposive function.
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    • 3.Complete non-purposiveness is difficult to sustain philosophically; even aesthetic autonomy presupposes some human telos or rational capacity.
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    • 1.Moritz emphasizes beauty's immediate sensory pleasure rather than its utility for knowledge or virtue, breaking from rationalist instrumentalism.
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    • 2.His concept of 'schöne Darstellung' treats aesthetic form as intrinsically valuable, not subordinate to external perfectionist goals.
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    • 3.Moritz's framework allows beauty independent status, prefiguring Kantian autonomy and rejecting Wolffian subsumption under perfection doctrine.
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