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The perception of beauty is active, not passive. — Carmelics

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The perception of beauty is active, not passive.

Aesthetics Consciousness & Mind

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1.The perception of beauty involves the activity of both imagination and reason.
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2.Active engagement of mental powers characterizes an active rather than passive process.
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1.Empiricist aestheticians like Hutcheson argue beauty is apprehended through an 'internal sense' that operates involuntarily, like color perception.
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2.If aesthetic pleasure arises prior to and independent of rational deliberation, the cognitive 'activity' described is post-hoc, not constitutive of beauty perception.
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1.Kant's own account in the Third Critique allows that the free play of faculties is triggered by the object, not initiated by the subject's deliberate agency.
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2.A process that is caused by external stimulus and proceeds without voluntary control is passive in the relevant sense, regardless of internal cognitive complexity.
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Five years after the Considerations, Herz developed this conception of beauty as objective but yielding only indeterminate rules for taste into the far more extensive Essay on Taste. Herz begins with what he considers to be a Baumgartian definition of beauty as the appearance of perfection in an object, where perfection in turn consists in the unity of a manifold. However, he adds that a work of art also has a Haltung, or expresses an attitude, and that its beauty also depends upon the harmony b

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