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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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