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Only a compound or whole can be beautiful — Carmelics

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Only a compound or whole can be beautiful

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1.Nothing devoid of parts can be beautiful
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2.Beauty belongs to things only as wholes, not to isolated elements
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1.Kant's account of the beautiful in the Critique of Judgment grounds beauty in a subjective feeling of free harmony, not in objective structural properties of compounds.
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2.A structurally simple object, such as a pure hue in color theory, can occasion this harmonious free play of imagination and understanding without being a compound.
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3.Therefore, the compound-or-whole condition mistakes a frequent accompaniment of beauty for its constitutive criterion.
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1.Plotinus argues that simple light and color can be beautiful without compositional structure, as beauty in the Enneads originates from the One, which is partless.
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2.If partless entities like pure color or a single musical tone can produce genuine aesthetic pleasure, then compositional wholeness is not a necessary condition for beauty.
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Only a compound can be beautiful, never anything devoid of parts; and only a whole; the several parts will have beauty, not in themselves, but only as working together to give a comely total. Yet beauty in an aggregate demands beauty in details; it cannot be constructed out of ugliness; its law must run throughout.

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