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    The enjoyment of beauty contributes directly to morality — Carmelics
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    The enjoyment of beauty contributes directly to morality

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    • 1.The enjoyment of beauty is a source of mental activity
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    • 2.Mental activity is a source of happiness
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    • 3.Happiness is the aim of morality
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    • 1.Kant argues that aesthetic pleasure is disinterested and purposively purposeless, making it categorically separate from moral motivation.
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    • 2.Moral worth for Kant derives solely from acting from duty, not from cultivated sensibility or pleasant mental states.
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    • 3.Therefore, aesthetic enjoyment belongs to a different faculty than practical reason and cannot directly generate moral action.
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    • 1.Schiller's own evidence shows beautiful art can cultivate sensuous harmony that replaces moral seriousness with aesthetic self-satisfaction.
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    • 2.History demonstrates that aesthetically refined cultures—Weimar, fin-de-siècle Vienna—produced morally indifferent or politically passive elites.
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    • 3.A disposition toward beauty may therefore displace rather than reinforce the stern demands of moral obligation.
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    Some of Herz’s most interesting points and his greatest differences with Kant’s theory of taste emerge in the discussion of the influence of morality on taste. Herz argues that the enjoyment of beauty contributes to morality in two ways, directly and indirectly. The enjoyment of beauty contributes to morality directly because as a source of mental activity it is a source of happiness, and happiness is nothing less than the aim of morality. Here again Herz adopts the same positions as Sulzer. Her
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