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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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