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    It is not the case that Moritz's conception of beauty is essentially the same as Wolff's and Baumgarten's conception of beauty as 'sensible perfection'

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    • 1.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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    • 2.For Wolff and Baumgarten, sensible perfection is instrumental to rational cognition, whereas Moritz's 'das in sich selbst Vollendete' is radically self-contained and purposeless.
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    • 3.This shift from perfection-as-means to perfection-as-autotelic anticipates Kant's purposiveness without purpose and constitutes a conceptually distinct aesthetic framework.
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    • 1.Baumgarten grounds beauty in the unity of a manifold as perceived through confused lower cognition, making it epistemically dependent on its relation to clear rational ideas.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.This inversion of the perceiver-object relation marks a categorical departure from the Wolffian tradition that the supporting argument's conflation of 'perfection' language obscures.
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    • 1.Moritz defines beauty as the internal perfection of a work of art as it strikes the senses and imagination
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    • 2.Wolff and Baumgarten define beauty as 'sensible perfection'
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    • 3.Moritz draws no distinction between Wolff's and Baumgarten's conceptions
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