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Full Idea
The aesthetic objectivist faces the difficulty of accounting for the fact that pleasure is not in the object, and is necessary for, and not just a contingent accompaniment to, aesthetic response.
Gist of Idea
Aesthetic objectivists must explain pleasure being essential, but not in the object
Source
Sebastian Gardner (Aesthetics [1995], 1.2.3)
Book Ref
'Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject', ed/tr. Grayling,A.C. [OUP 1995], p.591
A Reaction
The objectivist has to claim, not utterly implausibly, that if you don't get pleasure from certain works, then you 'ought' to. You can ignore a good work, but to deny that it gives pleasure is a failing in you.
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