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    It is not the case that Sympathy must be included in Hume's aesthetic 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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    • 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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