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    It is not the case that Only a compound or whole can be beautiful

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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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    • 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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