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    It is not the case that The proud father is attending to the 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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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