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    Riedel's tripartite classification of aesthetic methods i... — Carmelics
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    Riedel's tripartite classification of aesthetic methods is artificial and the characterization of Baumgarten's method as 'miserable dry' is unfair.

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    • 1.Baumgarten's Aesthetica deploys a systematic analogia rationis, mapping logical categories onto sensory cognition with deliberate methodological richness.
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    • 2.Wolffian demonstrative method, which Baumgarten inherited, treats examples as integral proofs, not decorative supplements to dry definitions.
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    • 3.Riedel conflates pedagogical austerity with philosophical poverty, ignoring that Baumgarten's density signals rigor, not aridity.
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    • 1.Aristotle, Kames, and Baumgarten all blend empirical observation with normative prescription, making Riedel's tripartite division a post-hoc taxonomic fiction.
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    • 2.Riedel's own Theorie der schönen Künste borrows structural categories from Baumgarten, undermining the credibility of his dismissive characterization.
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    • 1.In his mature Aesthetica, Baumgarten supported his definitions with extensive examples, not mere bare definitions.
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    • 2.Distinctions among the methods of Aristotle, Kames, and Baumgarten are not as cleanly separable as Riedel claims.
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    We may now turn to Herder’s second main criticism of Lessing, hinted at in the first of the Groves of Criticism but more fully developed in the unpublished fourth Grove and the essay on Sculpture. The fourth Grove is cast as a critique of Riedel’s Theory of the Fine Sciences and Arts, as earlier noted, but also continues the debate with Lessing. Herder begins with several methodological objections to Riedel. First, although he otherwise admires Baumgarten, Herder criticizes Riedel’s acceptance o
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