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    It is not the case that The human being alone is capable of an ideal of beauty.

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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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    • 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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