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    It is not the case that Works of art have beauty, although in some lesser measure than the beauty of minds.

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    • 1.Beauty requires the capacity for self-reflection and moral responsiveness, which inert material objects categorically lack.
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    • 2.A principle imposed externally on passive matter produces only the appearance of form, not genuine beauty in the object itself.
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    • 3.Shaftesbury's own hierarchy entails that dead matter receives beauty only derivatively, making 'beauty' in art equivocal rather than a lesser degree of the same property.
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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Judgment establishes that aesthetic beauty requires a free play of imagination and understanding in a perceiving subject, not a property residing in the object.
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    • 2.If beauty is constituted by the subjective response of a rational perceiver rather than by an animating principle in the work, then artworks do not possess beauty but merely occasion it.
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    • 1.Works of art are temporarily beautified by their respective principles.
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    • 2.Being beautified by a principle is sufficient for possessing beauty.
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    • 3.Material beauty is a lesser kind of beauty than the beauty of a mind, but is beauty nonetheless.
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