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    The cultivation of common standards of taste in a society... — Carmelics
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    The cultivation of common standards of taste in a society can be conducive to the discovery of the art of reciprocal communication between the educated and the less educated.

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    • 1.Common standards of taste, when cultivated or realized in a society, coordinate the breadth and refinement of the educated with the natural simplicity and originality of the less educated.
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    • 2.Such coordination constitutes the art of reciprocal communication of ideas across social strata.
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    • 1.Common aesthetic standards historically emerge from dominant social classes and encode their particular interests as universal norms.
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    • 2.Standards that encode class-specific interests systematically distort rather than enable genuine reciprocal communication across strata.
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    • 3.Communication premised on the less educated adopting elite standards reproduces hierarchy rather than transcending it.
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    • 1.Kant's aesthetic theory demonstrates that genuine judgments of taste are irreducibly singular and resist codification into teachable common standards.
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    • 2.If taste cannot be reduced to transmissible rules or standards, cultivating 'common standards' produces conformism rather than authentic aesthetic sensibility.
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    Sixth and finally, in the brief “Appendix on the methodology of taste,” Kant suggests that the cultivation or realization of common standards of taste in a society can be conducive to the discovery of the more general “art of the reciprocal communication of the ideas of the most educated part” of a society “with the cruder, the coordination of the breadth and refinement of the former with the natural simplicity and originality of the latter” (CPJ, §60, 5:356), where this art is apparently necess
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