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    The power of thought cannot ask why a beautiful thing is ... — Carmelics
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    The power of thought cannot ask why a beautiful thing is beautiful, because beauty's inner essence lies outside the limits of conceptual thought.

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    • 1.The nature of the beautiful consists in the fact that its inner essence lies outside the limits of the power of thought, originating in its own coming-to-be.
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    • 2.What lies outside the limits of conceptual thought cannot be interrogated by conceptual thought.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrates in the Critique of Judgment that aesthetic judgments have a determinate logical structure involving universal validity claims.
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    • 2.If beauty's essence were wholly outside conceptual thought, aesthetic judgments could not claim universal assent, yet they demonstrably do.
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    • 3.A phenomenon that generates rationally articulable, intersubjective claims cannot be entirely beyond the reach of conceptual interrogation.
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    • 1.Hegel argues in the Lectures on Aesthetics that beauty is the sensuous shining of the Idea, making it intrinsically intelligible to reason.
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    • 2.The claim that beauty lies outside conceptual thought presupposes a concept of beauty's essence, which is itself a conceptual act and thus self-undermining.
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    From the premise that “The nature of the beautiful consists precisely in the fact that its inner essence lies outside of the limits of the power of thought, in its origination, in its own coming-to-be,” Moritz infers that “in the case of the beautiful, the power of thought can no longer ask, why is it beautiful?” (ibid., p. 564). The essence of beauty thus escapes ordinary conceptual thought. This is the basis for Moritz’s argument, in another essay entitled “The Signature of the Beautiful,” tha
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