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    There is no difference in kind between natural beauty and... — Carmelics
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    There is no difference in kind between natural beauty and the beauty of art

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    • 1.Natural beauty is composed by human observers selecting and arranging perceived parts
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    • 2.Art is likewise composed by human agents selecting and arranging material parts
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    • 3.If both natural beauty and artistic beauty are products of human composition, they share the same essential nature
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    • 1.Artistic beauty is essentially intentional: it embeds meaning, technique, and communicative purpose chosen by a maker.
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    • 2.Natural beauty lacks intentional structure entirely—mountains and sunsets are not about anything nor made for appreciation.
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    • 3.A difference in the constitutive role of intention marks a difference in kind, not merely degree, between the two domains.
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    • 1.Hegel argued art supersedes nature aesthetically because it externalizes Spirit, making inner freedom perceptible in sensuous form.
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    • 2.Natural beauty, on Hegel's account, is beauty 'in itself' but not 'for itself'—it cannot reflect on or redeem its own contingency.
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    • 3.If natural beauty and artistic beauty differ in their metaphysical function regarding self-conscious freedom, they cannot be the same in kind.
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    An objection to this view is that beauty is not constructed; we might find it in a natural landscape, for example. Alexander replies to this that landscapes and other natural phenomena are rendered beautiful by the parts that we pick out, akin to a photographer composing a picture. As such, the beauty of nature is composed by us (Alexander 1928:149). This entails that there is no difference in kind between natural beauty and art; for more on this, see Alexander’s “Art and the Material” (reprinte
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