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The pre-rational concept of Beauty must be sought along t... — Carmelics

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The pre-rational concept of Beauty must be sought along the path of abstraction.

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1.The pre-rational concept of Beauty cannot be drawn from any actual case.
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2.The pre-rational concept of Beauty itself corrects and guides our judgement concerning every actual case.
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1.Wittgenstein's family resemblance theory shows concepts like Beauty are formed through overlapping similarities among particulars, not abstraction from them.
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2.If Beauty-judgments are corrected by a pre-rational concept, this concept must originate somewhere—empirical encounter with beautiful particulars is the only coherent origin.
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1.Aristotle's inductive epistemology in Posterior Analytics II.19 holds that universal concepts arise from repeated perceptual experience, not prior to it.
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2.Kant himself grants in the Third Critique that aesthetic judgment begins with singular encounters ('this rose is beautiful'), undermining any pre-experiential abstraction as its source.
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The pre-rational concept of Beauty, if such a thing be adduced, can be drawn from no actual case—rather does itself correct and guide our judgement concerning every actual case; it must therefore be sought along the path of abstraction, and it can be inferred simply from the possibility of a nature that is both sensuous and rational; in a word, Beauty must be exhibited as a necessary condition of humanity. Beauty … makes of man a whole, complete in himself. (1795, 59–60, 86)

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