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    The pleasure by which beauty is discerned arises necessarily — Carmelics
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    Supports→The discernment of beauty is sensible (i.e., a matter of sense rather than reason)

    The pleasure by which beauty is discerned arises necessarily

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    Hutcheson gives one argument for the sensibility, and another for the internality, of the power by which we discern beauty. His argument for its sensibility is largely a systematization and amplification of Shaftesbury’s. That the discernment of beauty is sensible follows from the immediacy, necessity, and disinterestedness of the arising of the pleasure by which beauty is discerned:

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