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    It is not the case that Music's ability to express subjective life is undermined by Hanslick's negative argument in On the Musically Beautiful.

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    • 1.Hegel claims music has the ability to express subjective life.
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    • 2.Hanslick's negative argument in On the Musically Beautiful targets claims about music's expressive capacities.
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    • 1.Hanslick argues that music can only suggest the dynamic qualities of emotions (their motion, tension) but not their specific emotional content.
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    • 2.Without determinate emotional content, music cannot express subjective life in the robust sense Hegel and Romantics require.
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    • 3.The dynamic qualities Hanslick concedes to music are insufficient to individuate distinct emotional states like grief versus fear.
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    • 1.Hanslick's formalist thesis holds that musical content consists solely in 'tonally moving forms,' not representational or emotional states.
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    • 2.If musical meaning is exhausted by purely formal tonal relations, then attributions of subjective expression are listener projections, not musical properties.
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    • 3.Listener projection undermines the Hegelian claim that music objectively embodies and communicates inner subjective life as a shared content.
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