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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Artworks are always created with external intentions—commercial, political, or communicative—making purely intrinsic teleology philosophically incoherent.
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    • 2.Beauty judgments fundamentally depend on contextual interpretation and cultural frameworks, not autonomous object-properties or internal endpoints.
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    • 3.The notion of 'completed whole' is unstable; artworks gain new meanings through reception, reinterpretation, and historical distance, undermining fixed intrinsic purposes.
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    • 1.Artworks that achieve internal coherence—where form, content, and technique integrate purposefully—consistently elicit aesthetic experiences across diverse audiences.
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    • 2.Beauty arising from intrinsic ends avoids reducing artworks to mere instruments for external purposes, preserving their distinctive value and autonomy.
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    • 3.Organisms and natural systems demonstrate that self-directed purposiveness (teleology) generates aesthetic appreciation independent of observer utility.
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