The Tao Of Nature And Aesthetics | | Posted on:2011-03-09 | Degree:Doctor | Type:Dissertation | | Country:China | Candidate:D Zhao | Full Text:PDF | | GTID:1115360302497310 | Subject:Aesthetics | | Abstract/Summary: | PDF Full Text Request | | For decades, there's a trendy which considered that Chuang Tzu's Philosophy is just the same as Chuang Tzu's aesthetics in academy filed. As a matter of fact, it's not the case at all. Chuang Tzu's Philosophy is a moral philosophy and it should be transformed into aesthetics. During the process, metaphysics of WeiJin dynasty play a important role as a interim, it resolve the problem which the relation between subject and object is amphibious in Chuang Tzu's Philosophy and also the "figure" is inadequate as well. Metaphysics of WeiJin dynasty is the preparative for the transformation from Chuang Tzu's Philosophy to Chuang Tzu's aesthetics. The literary theories appeared later turned Chuang Tzu's Philosophy into Chuang Tzu's aesthetics specifically.From philosophy to aesthetics, from moral cultivation to aesthetics experience, the research pays more attention to transformation than for anything else. The transformation specifically includes:from the "Taoism experience" and "Soul roaming" by moral subject to "Observing thing " and "Tasting thing " by aesthetics subject; from "Tao is everywhere" and "Where is moral eyes, where is Tao" by moral object to "landscape is Tao" and "landscape expresses Tao with form" by aesthetics object; from "ignorance of heart " and "ego limbo" of moral cultivation mood to "Nonchalant feeling and tasting figure" of aesthetics experience; from "natural inaction" moral practice to "express spirit by figure" of aesthetics production; from "forget language after get meaning" and "forget figure after get meaning" of moral cultivation to "meaning and figure are both adequate" of image and bourn; from "materialization" and "depersonalization" to "depersonalization bourn " of aesthetics bourn; from "Tao is the goal of skill" of moral skill to "nothing in mind " of production way; from "mind roam" of moral cultivation to "the best method is no method" of art production; from "natural and naivete is important" of moral ideal to "as pure as lotus" of art style; from "all creature are born gregarious" of social ideal to "express my own nimbus" of nimbus genre; and so on. Above are the reformation from moral cultivation to aesthetics experience,from philosophy to aesthetics. | | Keywords/Search Tags: | ChuangTzu, philosophy, aesthetics transformation, moral cultivation, aesthetics experience | PDF Full Text Request | Related items |
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