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    The human being alone is capable of an ideal of beauty. — Carmelics
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    The human being alone is capable of an ideal of beauty.

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    • 1.An ideal of beauty requires that the subject be capable of an ideal of perfection.
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    • 2.Humanity, as intelligence (practical reason), is the only thing among all objects in the world of unconditional value.
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    • 3.Only that which is of unconditional value is capable of an ideal of perfection.
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    • 1.Schopenhauer argues that aesthetic experience involves the will-less contemplation of Platonic Ideas embodied in non-human nature and art.
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    • 2.If animals, landscapes, and abstract forms can express Platonic Ideas that evoke pure aesthetic response, then the ideal of beauty is not restricted to rational humanity.
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    • 3.The capacity to instantiate an ideal of beauty depends on expressive form, not on the subject's own rational agency or moral status.
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    • 1.Kant's own account of free beauty (pulchritudo vaga) identifies flowers, birds, and arabesques as paradigm cases of pure aesthetic judgment.
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    • 2.Free beauty, unlike dependent beauty, requires no concept of what the object ought to be, and thus no ideal of perfection grounded in rational purpose.
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    • 3.If the purest form of aesthetic judgment applies to non-human objects without reference to rational ideals, then the capacity for ideal beauty cannot be uniquely human.
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    This means that the ideal of beauty is a species of adherent rather than free beauty. Kant then argues that there are two elements in such an ideal, namely a uniquely valuable purpose or end and a uniquely appropriate aesthetic expression of this purpose or end. “The human being alone is capable of an ideal of beauty,” Kant then argues, because “the humanity in his person, as intelligence, is alone among all the objects in the world capable of the ideal of perfection” (ibid., 5:233). That is, a
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