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    Sympathy must be included in Hume's aesthetic theory — Carmelics
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    Sympathy must be included in Hume's aesthetic theory

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    • 1.Sympathy plays an important role in Hume's moral theory
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    • 2.Hume posits close ties between morals and aesthetics
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    • 3.To sustain those ties, the aesthetic theory must incorporate the same mechanisms as the moral theory
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    • 1.Hume explicitly grounds aesthetic judgment in an individual's refined taste and imaginative response, not in sympathetic projection onto others.
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    • 2.The 'true judge' in Hume's aesthetic theory achieves standard-setting verdicts through personal delicacy and practice, mechanisms structurally independent of sympathy.
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    • 3.Importing sympathy into aesthetics conflates the causal origin of beauty's social utility with the phenomenological basis of aesthetic pleasure itself.
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    • 1.Hume's moral-aesthetic analogy is primarily structural and methodological, not a claim that identical psychological mechanisms operate in both domains.
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    • 2.Hume explicitly treats the beauty of inanimate objects—mathematical forms, landscapes—as aesthetic without any plausible sympathetic mechanism in play.
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    Hume also invokes the operation of a sympathetic sentiment. Since sympathy plays an important role in his moral theory (T, 577; EPM, 225), he must include it in his aesthetic theory if he is to sustain the close ties he posits between morals and aesthetics. The general point of view takes notice of pleasure that the object is fitted to bring to other people. The idea of their benefit generates sympathetic pleasure, increasing the sentiment of approbation (T, 364–65).
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