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    It is not the case that The ideal in art is not to be found anywhere outside fiction

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    • 1.Plotinus argues that the artist's intellect participates in the Form itself, making art a revelation of transcendent beauty, not fiction.
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    • 2.If art accesses the Ideal directly via nous, the ideal exists independently of fictional construction and precedes it ontologically.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics hold that great art embodies Geist concretely, making the ideal sensibly present in actual works.
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    • 2.A thing that is sensibly present in a real, existing artwork cannot be coherently classified as belonging only to fiction.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Nature as given does not contain the ideal directly
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    • 2.The artist must construct the ideal through a reasoned process of selective imitation
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