On The Causes And Significance Of The The Hou Emotional Ontology

The emotional ontology is the end-resuit of the development process of Li Zehou's whole practical aesthetics. It indicates the shift of his academic focus and the bracketing of "practice", and his emphasis on individual, sensibility, life, psychology and feeling. This article tries to study on his emotional ontology from following aspects:The first part mainly outlines emotional ontology and the critics' interpretations of it.The second part states the development of Li Zehou's aesthetic thoughts and the formative causes of his emotional ontology. There are four causes by and large. The internal formative causes are:1 the inheritance of early "duality of aesthetic pleasure contradiction", and the gradual foregrounding position of feeling in visual thinking and aesthetic perception.2 the aesthetic core function within cultural psychological structure.3 the internal contradictions of subjective philosophy system. The external cause is:4 the response to Liu Xiaobo's criticism.The shift from instrumental ontology to psychological (emotional) ontology manifests the academic focus transfer of his practical aesthetics thought. This facially leaping thought has its own inherent developing inevitability.The third part interprets senses of Li Zehou's emotional ontology, and the part develops from four aspects:1 raking and interpreting "emotional noumenon", from the aesthetic dimension, which refers to: new feeling, aesthetic psychological structure, transcendental sensus communis and life power.2 interpreting the connotations of "feeling" of emotional noumenon: first, "feeling" presents a relationship; secondly, it refers to different levels of relationship of "emotional noumenon", such as interpersonal relationship, relationship between man and art, relationship between man and universe etc.3 clarifying the three modalities of "emotional noumenon" and aesthetic perception: pleasing ears and eyes, pleasing hearts and wishes, pleasing wills and spirit. They witness the growing process of "psychological (emotional) noumenon"4 describing the "hardware" and "software" of human being's naturalization. "Human being's naturalization " is the foundation of "emotional noumenon" and an aesthetic problem.The fourth part illuminates the values and significances of "emotional noumenon". It contains three facets.1 elucidating his thoughts of two-level points of "emotional noumenon": metaphysics and physics, the aestheticization of life and the aesthetic emotionalization. "emotional noumenon" is a kind of "pleasing spirit"aesthetic realm on metaphysical level, and everyday subjective experiences on physical level. But in fact, "emotional noumenon" obviously has two points of metaphysics and physics. The reason why "emotional noumenon" becomes aesthetic life realm on metaphysical level and everyday subjective experiences on physical level has close relationship with his thoughts of the aestheticization of life and aesthetic emotionalization.2 demonstrating the relationship between "emotional noumenon" and "instrumental noumenon". They are different levels of noumenon.3 expounding the value orientation of "emotional ontology". The value ofsignificance of "emotional ontology" ultimately points to aesthetic life realm.