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    It is not the case that The Darwinian account cannot fully explain the arousal of emotion by beautiful music specifically

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    • 1.The Darwinian account posits a connection between musical phenomena in general and the arousal of a distinctive emotion
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    • 2.If the Darwinian account were sufficient, all music (not just beautiful music) would arouse that emotion
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    • 3.Only beautiful music in fact arouses that distinctive emotion
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    • 1.Kant's analysis of aesthetic judgment distinguishes beauty from mere sensory pleasure by requiring a free play of imagination and understanding.
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    • 2.Darwinian accounts reduce musical response to adaptive sensory stimulation, which maps onto mere pleasure rather than Kantian aesthetic judgment.
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    • 3.Therefore, the distinctively aesthetic emotion aroused by beautiful music requires a cognitive-evaluative component that evolutionary fitness explanations structurally cannot capture.
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    • 1.Hanslick argued that musical beauty is architecturally intrinsic—arising from tonal relationships and form—not from any biological trigger.
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    • 2.Emotions aroused specifically by beautiful music track formal properties like harmonic resolution and structural coherence, not stimuli with evolutionary salience.
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    • 3.A Darwinian mechanism selected for ecologically useful responses cannot explain why structurally complex, formally unified music arouses a qualitatively distinct emotional response that structurally disordered sound does not.
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