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    Pleasing form is sometimes sufficient for beauty without ... — Carmelics
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    Pleasing form is sometimes sufficient for beauty without imaginative association.

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    • 1.Initial impressions of the form of a material object can generate approbation directly.
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    • 2.Such form-based beauty is more typical of natural beauty than of art.
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    • 1.Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment that pure aesthetic judgment requires disinterested contemplation, not mere sensory form.
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    • 2.What appears as direct formal pleasure is always conditioned by culturally acquired schemas of proportion and regularity.
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    • 3.Therefore, no perception of form is free from associative or conceptual mediation that undermines the claim of sufficiency.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's remarks on aesthetics suggest that aesthetic responses are embedded in forms of life, not triggered by isolated formal properties.
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    • 2.Even natural beauty judgments like 'that flower is beautiful' presuppose learned frameworks of organic wholeness and teleological expectation.
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    • 3.Hume's own account of sympathy and custom implies that any approbation involves trained sensibility, not raw formal reception.
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    Hume recognizes a very small class of cases for which imaginative association is not needed to recognize beauty. In these cases, initial impressions of the mere “form” of a material object generate approbation (T, 364). Such cases are more typical of natural beauty than art (EPM, 173). So imagination is not always necessary for discovering beauty. Pleasing form is sometimes sufficient. However, “’tis seldom we rest there” (T, 363).
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