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    The response to artistic beauty requires imagination, rea... — Carmelics
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    The response to artistic beauty requires imagination, reason, and feeling.

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    • 1.Artistic beauty consists in the objective factors of manifoldness, unity, and attitude.
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    • 2.Imagination apprehends manifoldness, reason recognizes unity, and feeling responds to the attitude of the work.
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    • 3.Each objective constituent of artistic beauty requires a corresponding cognitive or affective faculty to perceive it.
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    • 1.Kant's 'Critique of Judgment' demonstrates that aesthetic response requires only the free play of imagination and understanding, making reason's role superfluous.
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    • 2.When reason determines aesthetic judgment, the result is a cognitive or moral judgment, not a genuinely aesthetic one, collapsing the distinction Baumgarten sought to establish.
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    • 3.A tripartite faculty model smuggles rationalist teleology into aesthetic experience, when the judgment of taste must be autonomous from conceptual determination.
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    • 1.Herder argued in 'Kalligone' that aesthetic response is grounded in embodied sensation and empathetic feeling alone, without requiring the mediation of rational faculties.
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    • 2.If imagination and reason are necessary conditions for aesthetic response, then congenitally non-rational beings could not experience beauty, a conclusion that conflicts with observed aesthetic behavior across cultures and species.
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    Five years after the Considerations, Herz developed this conception of beauty as objective but yielding only indeterminate rules for taste into the far more extensive Essay on Taste. Herz begins with what he considers to be a Baumgartian definition of beauty as the appearance of perfection in an object, where perfection in turn consists in the unity of a manifold. However, he adds that a work of art also has a Haltung, or expresses an attitude, and that its beauty also depends upon the harmony b
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