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    It is not the case that The representation of tragic suffering in great art routinely produces what Hume calls 'mixed sentiments,' where painful emotion coexists with genuine aesthetic pleasure, falsifying the pleasant-emotion-requires-well-being claim.

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    • 1.The pleasure in tragedy may derive from catharsis—emotional resolution that ultimately restores equilibrium and psychological well-being.
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    • 2.Aesthetic appreciation itself constitutes a genuine component of well-being; mixed sentiments serve overall eudaimonic flourishing.
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    • 3.'Mixed sentiments' may be phenomenologically indistinct—what feels like coexisting emotions might be a single complex state.
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    • 1.Watching King Lear produces simultaneous distress at suffering and pleasure in artistic excellence, proving emotions can genuinely coexist.
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    • 2.Well-being requires positive mental states; mixed sentiments involve negative states, so they cannot be reducible to well-being alone.
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    • 3.We seek tragic art despite predictable pain, suggesting aesthetic pleasure operates independently from hedonic comfort or welfare.
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