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    Moritz's claim that Kant's conception of beauty is essent... — Carmelics
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    Moritz's claim that Kant's conception of beauty is essentially the same as Wolff's and Moritz's own is false

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    • 1.Wolff grounds beauty in objective perfection (Vollkommenheit), a property of objects independent of any perceiving subject.
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    • 2.Kant explicitly rejects objective perfection as a basis for beauty, distinguishing free beauty (pulchritudo vaga) from dependent beauty tied to concepts.
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    • 3.A theory grounding beauty in objective perfection is categorically distinct from one grounding it in a subjective free play of faculties, regardless of surface terminological similarities.
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    • 1.Moritz's concept of the self-contained artwork (das in sich selbst Vollendete) presupposes a teleological unity that mirrors nature's purposive order as an objective structure.
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    • 2.Kant's Critique of Judgment explicitly distinguishes aesthetic judgment from teleological judgment, insisting that beauty's purposiveness is felt, not cognized as objective natural order.
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    • 3.Conflating felt purposiveness with cognized teleological structure commits the same error Kant diagnosed in rationalist aesthetics, precisely the error he wrote the Third Critique to correct.
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    • 1.Moritz's conception of beauty holds that the beauty of an individual work of art is an intimation of the true and objective order of nature as a whole
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    • 2.Kant's notion of purposiveness without purpose is a subjective state of mind in which imagination and understanding are in free harmony that does not represent anything at all
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    • 3.A conception of beauty as objective intimation of nature's order is fundamentally different from a conception of beauty as a subjective mental state that conveys no truth
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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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