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    The ideal of beauty in the human figure can only be creat... — Carmelics
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    The ideal of beauty in the human figure can only be created by an act of the aesthetic imagination, not derived from concepts or mechanical processes.

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    • 1.There is no way to derive what counts as beauty in the human figure from mere concepts or by any mechanical process.
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    • 2.Deriving beauty by rule or mechanical process could yield only correctness in the presentation of the species, not an ideal of maximum beauty.
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    • 3.What cannot be derived from concepts or rules must be created by imagination.
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    • 1.Hogarth's 'Analysis of Beauty' (1753) demonstrates that ideal beauty in the human figure follows articulable principles such as the serpentine line of grace.
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    • 2.If beauty in the human figure can be systematically analyzed into recurring structural principles, then concepts derived from observation—not imagination alone—are constitutive of that ideal.
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    • 3.A principle that can be articulated, taught, and applied across cases is by definition conceptual, not merely imaginative.
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    • 1.Plato's theory of Forms holds that beauty is an objective, rationally apprehensible ideal toward which particular beautiful things approximate.
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    • 2.If beauty in the human figure is a Form, then the ideal is discovered through rational intellection rather than created through an act of imagination.
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    • 3.The premise that imagination 'creates' the ideal smuggles in a Romantic constructivism that classical rationalist aesthetics directly and coherently denies.
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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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