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    The enjoyment of art is of immediate moral value. — Carmelics
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    The enjoyment of art is of immediate moral value.

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    • 1.The enjoyment of art directly contributes to human happiness.
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    • 2.Happiness is the ultimate object of morality.
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    • 1.Kant argues that genuine moral worth requires action from duty alone, not from inclination or pleasure.
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    • 2.Aesthetic enjoyment is a form of pleasure rooted in inclination, not rational duty.
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    • 3.Therefore, aesthetic enjoyment cannot possess immediate moral value on the Kantian framework that grounds morality.
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    • 1.Plato's Ion and Republic demonstrate that art engages the lower, emotional faculties rather than reason, potentially corrupting moral judgment.
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    • 2.If moral value requires the cultivation of rational self-governance, then enjoyment that strengthens emotional responsiveness over reason undermines rather than supports morality.
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    Sulzer’s earliest works in aesthetics concerned nature rather than art, but already demonstrated his lifelong concern for the moral significance of aesthetic experience. In his Conversations on the Beauties of Nature (Unterredungen über die Schönheiten der Natur, 1750), which was republished in 1770 together with his earlier Moral Thoughts on the Works of Nature (Versuch einiger moralischen Gedanken über die Werke der Natur, 1745), Sulzer analyzed the benefits of the enjoyment of natural beauty
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