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The idea of beauty as the reduction of all particulars to a single head still allows for a dichotomy in the treatment of beauty; what I will refer to as the appreciation of first and second order beauty. First order beauty is the most common conception, simply because it is the most obvious. It is beauty in an object as such, and stops there: everything exists for a purpose, and executes its function in the best way possible…
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The art world is a fascinating example of spontaneous order. Though the particular motives are different, like with the market, motive is indeed the key to art culture as spontaneous order. There are two axes on which we can describe the motive of artistry: first the artists’s with regard to himself, and second the artist’s with regard to his audience…