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    We take pleasure in experiencing a beautiful object. — Carmelics
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    We take pleasure in experiencing a beautiful object.

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    • 1.We experience a beautiful object as having a kind of unity ordinarily found by subsuming objects under determinate concepts, but independently of any such subsumption.
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    • 2.Finding such unity is our ultimate cognitive aim.
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    • 3.The unity found in a beautiful object appears contingent and unexpected because it is not linked to any determinate concept.
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    • 1.Kant himself distinguishes aesthetic judgment from any felt pleasure, grounding beauty in a free play of faculties prior to and independent of gratification.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates the cognitive achievement of finding unity with the hedonic state of pleasure, which Kant treats as a consequence, not the aesthetic experience itself.
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    • 3.If pleasure is merely downstream of the judgment of beauty rather than constitutive of it, then pleasure is neither necessary nor sufficient to account for the aesthetic encounter.
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    • 1.Schopenhauer argues aesthetic experience requires the complete suspension of willing and desire, making 'pleasure' a category error for aesthetic states.
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    • 2.If aesthetic contemplation extinguishes the desiring self that experiences pleasure, then no subject remains to take pleasure in the beautiful object.
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    Starting from the claim that Francis Hutcheson had made in 1725 and Mendelssohn reintroduced in 1785, Kant begins his analysis of the judgment of taste, that is, our claim that a particular object is beautiful, from the premise that our pleasure in a beautiful object occurs independently of any interest in the existence of the object as physiologically agreeable (CPJ, §3, 5:205–7) or as good for some purpose expressed by a determinate concept of utility or morality (CPJ, §4, 5:207–9). But neithe
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