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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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