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    It is not the case that The response to artistic beauty requires imagination, reason, and feeling.

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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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    • 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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