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    The source of pleasure in beauty is the equilibrium and p... — Carmelics
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    The source of pleasure in beauty is the equilibrium and proportion with which a perceiver grasps the parts of an object together as a whole.

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    • 1.The parts of a beautiful object must be distinct enough to convey variety.
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    • 2.The parts must be dense enough to allow the perceiver to grasp them together with equilibrium and proportion.
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    • 3.It is the latter condition — unified grasp with equilibrium — that produces pleasure.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that the pleasure of the beautiful arises from free play between imagination and understanding, not from successful proportional unification.
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    • 2.Free play requires indeterminate resistance to conceptual closure, meaning that a settled equilibrium of parts would terminate the very activity that produces pleasure.
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    • 3.Therefore, equilibrium in grasping parts as a whole describes cognitive resolution, which is the end of aesthetic experience rather than its source.
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    • 1.Burke argued that the sublime produces intense pleasure precisely through asymmetry, obscurity, and the disruption of unified grasp.
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    • 2.If pleasure arises from failed or overwhelmed comprehension, then equilibrium and proportion are neither necessary nor sufficient for aesthetic pleasure.
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    Mendelssohn worked within the framework of Wolffian metaphysics and psychology, and thus he accepted the definition of sensible perception as clear but confused cognition. He accepted Wolff’s explanation that pleasure arises in the sensible perception of perfection, but also Baumgarten’s transformation of that formula into the explanation of beauty as the perfection of sensible cognition: in Mendelssohn’s terms, “the essence of the fine arts and sciences consists in an artful, sensibly perfect r
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