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    Natural beauty is composed by humans, not found independe... — Carmelics
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    Natural beauty is composed by humans, not found independently in nature

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    • 1.Natural landscapes and phenomena are rendered beautiful by the parts that observers pick out
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    • 2.The act of selecting and composing parts of a landscape is analogous to a photographer composing a picture
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    • 1.Many natural objects possess intrinsic aesthetic properties—symmetry, fractal structure, bioluminescence—that exist independently of any observer's selection.
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    • 2.If beauty were composed by observers, identical landscapes would be equally beautiful to all perceivers, yet systematic cross-cultural aesthetic responses to nature suggest objective aesthetic features.
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    • 1.The photographer analogy conflates causal contribution with constitution: a photographer's framing causes us to notice beauty without thereby creating the beauty itself.
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    • 2.Kant's account of natural beauty grants it privileged aesthetic status precisely because it lacks intentional design, suggesting natural beauty resists reduction to human compositional acts.
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    An objection to this view is that beauty is not constructed; we might find it in a natural landscape, for example. Alexander replies to this that landscapes and other natural phenomena are rendered beautiful by the parts that we pick out, akin to a photographer composing a picture. As such, the beauty of nature is composed by us (Alexander 1928:149). This entails that there is no difference in kind between natural beauty and art; for more on this, see Alexander’s “Art and the Material” (reprinte
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