Li Zehou’s Aesthetics And Confucian Tradition

Li Zehou’s life has witnessed several major period caused by political changes of Chinese history.His unique life experience also deeply engraved in the development of his aesthetic thoughts.Historical and political,different scholars in many ways had an impact on Li Zehou’s aesthetics thoughts,while the ones with most significant factors than any other can be seen as the Confucian tradition theory,which always presents a "The positive and negative " evolutionary path onto guiding Li Zehou.As a native Chinese scholar,Li Zehou also got influnced by western acedemic.The western and Confucian radical theories interpretate each other in Li Zehou’s thoughts,while the latter has always been the main factor as the fundation in his theory.Meanwhile,Li Zehou’s theory always focus on three major issues:the survival of all mankind,morality and liberty.In Li Zehou’s Confucian theory context,the influence of Confucianism is maybe not clearly presents,but the spirit of Confucian tradition more often than not presents in the complexity of all the alternating changes.Therefore,in Li Zehou’s career,Confucian tradition plays an important part in his thoughts for quite a long time and that it may not be fully understood.The attitude to the Confucian tradition also often shows a contradictionary value to Li.Marx’s historical materialism and Kant’s philosophy of subjectivity generate far-reaching influence on Li Zehou’s aesthetics,which lead him to apply those theory onto interpret Confucian tradition considering the attitude of criticism and reconstructism in Li Zehou’s study.In his later years,although he was aware of the importance of the Confucian tradition in emphasizing Kant and Marx,it is still difficult to convert the western research model.Focused on Confucian tradition,Li developed his own research model.Therefore,Marx,Kant and Confucian tradition in Li Zehou’s theory system always present as a combination.They have grown into Li Zehou’s aesthetics ideology even if that has not been widely functioned.In addition to the Confucian tradition,Marx’s theory is another throughout main idea in Li Zehou’s aesthetics developing process.Different from the Confucian tradition in guiding Li Zehou’s thoughts,Marx’s theory helps to build up Li Zehou’s Chinese cultural modernity transformation regarding inheriting the Confucian tradition theory.Li Zehou’s practical aesthetic thoughts on general have been influenced by Marx’s methodology in various periods of study of interpretation.Li Zehou’s radical model of subject-object dualism consist of instrumental rationality and freedom,taking time to practice the spirit of initiative on historical practice of objective idealism.Li Zehou’s thoughts are influenced by marxist theory as well as the Confucian humanity aesthetic tradition moved away from the traditional Confucian ethics context.According to his understanding of marxist historical materialism and objective practical aesthetics,the degree of the doctrine is interpreted as tools ontology,which caused the compulsory interpretation.And Marx’s theory of contradictions and the Confucian tradition in aesthetics also resulted in Li Zehou’s understanding of the Confucian aesthetic tradition in the very long period of time given the dualism of the separation between them.Li Zehou and Kant’s philosophy has a meaningful relationship.Li Zehou continuous attention was paid accidentally and voluntarily on Kant,which leads to the inevitable influnce by Kant’s own ideas.Attached by the tradition of Confucian ethics,Li Zehou seeks in Kant’s philosophy for moral standard.Kant philosophy emphasizes that the enlightenment rationality of human being is the dominant thought.Therefore,Li Zehou got affected by Kant’s subjective thinking and focused on subjectivity in the dualism.Li Zehou puts forward the "psychological structural culture","music culture" and "human nature in spontaneousness" in the fundation of objective materialism as early concepts.He emphasis on Kant’s enlightenment rationality at the same time,with an attempt to strengthen the morality of Confucianism reasonable reasoning.Considering Kant’s philosophy under the influence of subjectivity,Li Zehou establish moral theory of subjectivity.It combines the Confucian tradition of "benevolence" as well as the "cultural psychological structure",and puts forward the "ontology" in transferring the traditional Confucian ethics into dualism of subjectivity thoughts.Li Zehou devoted himself to the study of Confucianism,while actually he has not totally realized that the Confucian tradition calls for the most significant role in his mind.Li Zehou tried to seek survival understanding on traditional Confucian foundation,as the essence of Confucian traditional survival issue lies in its overall constructive.In the interpretation of the Confucian tradition survival issue,due to the long-term influence by western academics,Li Zehou grabs the spirit in subjective and objective aspects in western theories to interpret the Confucian tradition.Li Zehou was driven by Confucian traditional which as a whole was a constructive survival conquest trying to return to traditional Confucian aesthetic survival issue.Under the influnce by Kant and Marxist theory,the overall survival traditional explanation for objective and practical moral theory together with the principal of practical philosophy forms the "historical anthropology ontology",which emphasizes "witchcraft history tradition","reasonable structure" and "practical reasoning",and puts forward the "Confucius and Kant" model as a conception.Li Zehou still stranded between the dualism and the traditional Confucian aesthetic as a whole construction.The blendding of the Confucian tradition of truth,kindness,and aesthetic pursuit in his thought is not completed.