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    Pleasure in a beautiful object can be independent of subs... — Carmelics
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    Pleasure in a beautiful object can be independent of subsumption under any determinate concept and yet be universally valid for all who properly respond to the object.

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    • 1.Pleasure in a beautiful object is an expression of the free play of the cognitive faculties of imagination and understanding.
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    • 2.The cognitive faculties of imagination and understanding work the same way in everyone.
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    • 3.The free play of imagination and understanding does not require subsumption of the object under a determinate concept.
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    • 1.Aesthetic judgment is always shaped by culturally and historically specific frameworks that vary across communities.
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    • 2.If the conditions for aesthetic response are culturally variable, no pleasure can claim validity independent of those conditions.
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    • 3.Cultural variability in aesthetic response cannot be explained away as mere failure of 'proper' response without circularity.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following argument shows that no cognitive activity is intelligible apart from shared practices and criteria.
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    • 2.If 'free play' of faculties requires no shared criteria or concepts, it cannot generate communicable or universally claimable judgments.
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    • 3.Universal validity requires precisely the kind of conceptual grounding that the Kantian account of beauty explicitly disavows.
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    Starting from the claim that Francis Hutcheson had made in 1725 and Mendelssohn reintroduced in 1785, Kant begins his analysis of the judgment of taste, that is, our claim that a particular object is beautiful, from the premise that our pleasure in a beautiful object occurs independently of any interest in the existence of the object as physiologically agreeable (CPJ, §3, 5:205–7) or as good for some purpose expressed by a determinate concept of utility or morality (CPJ, §4, 5:207–9). But neithe
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