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    It is not the case that Schiller's own account of 'naive' beauty acknowledges that unreflective sensuous form can achieve aesthetic completeness without any reference to soul or character.

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    • 1.For Schiller, aesthetic education fundamentally aims at moral development, making soul/character essential to beauty's purpose.
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    • 2.The claim conflates momentary sensuous pleasure with genuine aesthetic completeness, which Schiller reserves for unity of form and concept.
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    • 3.Schiller's system requires freedom and rational reflection; 'unreflective' form cannot achieve the completeness his theory demands.
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    • 1.Schiller distinguishes naive beauty from sentimental beauty, explicitly crediting sensuous form with independent aesthetic value.
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    • 2.Natural objects like flowers achieve aesthetic pleasure through proportion, color, and harmony without requiring moral interpretation.
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    • 3.If all beauty required character reference, pre-reflective aesthetic responses in children and animals would be unintelligible.
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