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Vraisemblance is not an end in itself but a means to the ... — Carmelics

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Vraisemblance is not an end in itself but a means to the true goal of art, which is to arouse sentiments.

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1.The real goal of the arts is to arouse sentiments.
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2.Vraisemblance functions only as a means of arousing those sentiments.
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1.Aristotle's Poetics establishes mimesis as constitutively valuable: the pleasure of recognition is inseparable from imitation's formal correctness.
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2.If vraisemblance is merely instrumental, skilled falsehood that arouses stronger sentiment would be aesthetically superior to truthful representation, which contradicts artistic judgment.
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3.The intrinsic cognitive achievement of accurate representation grounds aesthetic value independently of any emotional effect it produces.
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1.Kant's Critique of Judgment argues that genuine aesthetic response requires disinterested contemplation, making sentiment-arousal a sign of empirical interest rather than aesthetic judgment.
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2.If arousing sentiments is the true end of art, then propaganda and manipulation share the same telos as genuine art, collapsing a distinction aesthetics must preserve.
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Since artistic imitations are intended to arouse emotions similar to those aroused by the objects imitated, Du Bos values what he calls vraisemblance (verisimilitude). Painters, for example, must “make a painting consistent with what we know of the customs, habits, architecture, and arms of the people that one intends to represent” (1.30). A work can, however, be vraisemblable without being an imitation of the real world and historical events. A work can be vraisemblable and yet be an example of

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