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    This shift from perfection-as-means to perfection-as-auto... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Moritz's conception of beauty is essentially the same as Wolff's and Baumgarten's conception of beauty as 'sensible perfection'

    This shift from perfection-as-means to perfection-as-autotelic anticipates Kant's purposiveness without purpose and constitutes a conceptually distinct aesthetic framework.

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    • 1.Pre-Kantian aesthetics treated beauty as instrumental to virtue/truth; this framework shows how aesthetics became autonomous.
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    • 2.Purposiveness-without-purpose requires rejecting instrumental accounts; autotelic perfection models this rejection conceptually.
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    • 3.Historical periodization matters: recognizing this shift clarifies how Kant synthesized earlier insights into novel systematic form.
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    • 1.The distinction between perfection-as-means and perfection-as-autotelic may be terminological rather than conceptually fundamental.
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    • 2.Kant's purposiveness-without-purpose might not require, or be fully explained by, this specific historical precedent or framework.
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    • 3.Pre-Kantian texts often blur instrumental/intrinsic value; claiming a sharp conceptual shift risks oversimplifying complex traditions.
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