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    It is not the case that Pragmatist somaesthetics (Shusterman) holds that heightened bodily awareness during routine activities like martial arts or cooking constitutes genuine aesthetic experience without estrangement.

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    • 1.Flow states and technical mastery are experiential goods but lack the reflective distance necessary to constitute aesthetic judgment rather than mere function.
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    • 2.If all heightened bodily awareness counts as aesthetic experience, the term loses critical force and becomes indistinguishable from any skilled activity.
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    • 3.Traditional aesthetics emphasizes contemplation precisely because it suspends utilitarian concerns; cooking for nutrition differs fundamentally from aesthetic appreciation.
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    • 1.Aesthetic experience requires neither distance nor contemplation; immediate sensory engagement with lived activity generates genuine aesthetic value.
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    • 2.Martial artists and cooks report deep satisfaction from bodily mastery and flow states, indicating real aesthetic phenomena regardless of traditional frameworks.
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    • 3.Restricting aesthetics to estranged observation excludes most human flourishing and reflects arbitrary Western intellectual biases rather than universal principles.
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