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    The confusion of sensible perception cannot itself be the source of pleasure in sensible perception.

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    • 1.Leibniz holds that pleasure arises from the perception of perfection, which requires the soul's active apprehension of order and harmony.
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    • 2.Confusion, as mere indistinctness, occludes rather than presents perfection, leaving the soul with no positive content to apprehend as its object.
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    • 3.Therefore, what grounds aesthetic pleasure is the underlying perfection dimly perceived, not the confusion that obscures it.
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    • 1.Baumgarten argues in Aesthetica that sensible cognition achieves beauty through ubertas, magnitudo, and veritas—all positive cognitive achievements.
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    • 2.A mere failure of distinctness, being a privation of cognitive achievement, cannot itself function as a positive ground for the soul's gratification.
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    • 3.Pleasure requires a ratio sufficiens in the perceiving faculty's actual exercise, not in its arrested or deficient operation.
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    • 1.Any pure gratification of the soul must be grounded in the positive powers of the soul, not in its incapacity or limitation.
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    • 2.Confusion in sensible perception reflects a limitation or incapacity of those original powers.
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    Mendelssohn worked within the framework of Wolffian metaphysics and psychology, and thus he accepted the definition of sensible perception as clear but confused cognition. He accepted Wolff’s explanation that pleasure arises in the sensible perception of perfection, but also Baumgarten’s transformation of that formula into the explanation of beauty as the perfection of sensible cognition: in Mendelssohn’s terms, “the essence of the fine arts and sciences consists in an artful, sensibly perfect r
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