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    The association between outward beauty of the human figur... — Carmelics
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    The association between outward beauty of the human figure and moral value must be created by the imagination.

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    • 1.There is no rule that states moral value must be expressed in outward appearance.
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    • 2.There is no rule that states outward appearance can be interpreted as an expression of moral value.
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    • 3.Associations not governed by rules must be created by imagination.
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    • 1.Shaftesbury held that beauty, goodness, and truth form a unified metaphysical structure discoverable by reason, not constructed by imagination.
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    • 2.If the moral-aesthetic connection is grounded in the objective order of nature, then Premise 3's assumption that non-rule-governed associations require imagination is false.
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    • 3.A connection can be non-codified in explicit rules yet still be objectively real and rationally discernible without imaginative mediation.
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    • 1.Physiognomists like Lavater argued that moral character is naturally encoded in facial structure, making the beauty-virtue link perceptual, not imagined.
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    • 2.If physiognomic regularities are empirically observable patterns, then the association follows from perception and induction, not imaginative projection.
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    This means that the ideal of beauty is a species of adherent rather than free beauty. Kant then argues that there are two elements in such an ideal, namely a uniquely valuable purpose or end and a uniquely appropriate aesthetic expression of this purpose or end. “The human being alone is capable of an ideal of beauty,” Kant then argues, because “the humanity in his person, as intelligence, is alone among all the objects in the world capable of the ideal of perfection” (ibid., 5:233). That is, a
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