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    The proud father is attending to the performance — Carmelics
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    The proud father is attending to the performance

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    • 1.The proud father is attending to his daughter's performance
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    • 2.His daughter's performance is an element of the overall performance
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    • 1.Aesthetic attention requires disinterested perception, free from personal stake or emotional investment in the outcome (Kant, Critique of Judgment §2).
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    • 2.The proud father's attention is constitutively interested, shaped by parental pride rather than the work's aesthetic properties.
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    • 3.Therefore, his mode of attending fails to qualify as genuine aesthetic attention to the performance as such.
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    • 1.Attending to X as an aesthetic object requires perceiving X under aesthetic concepts, not under relational or sentimental categories (Sibley, 'Aesthetic Concepts').
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    • 2.The father perceives the performance primarily under the category 'my daughter's achievement,' which is a relational, non-aesthetic frame.
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    • 3.Attention filtered through a non-aesthetic frame is not equivalent to attending to the performance in the relevant aesthetic sense.
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    The attitude theorist, however, can plausibly resist Dickie’s interpretation of such examples. Clearly the impresario is not attending to the performance, but there is no reason to regard the attitude theorist as committed to thinking otherwise. As for the others, it might be argued that they are all attending. The jealous husband must be attending to the performance, since it is the action of the play, as presented by the performance, that is making him suspicious. The proud father must be atte
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