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Interpretation Of Greek Mythology By Ecological Aesthetics

Posted on:2012-06-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y M DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330338973158Subject:Aesthetics
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The 21st century is the era of myth revival, in which Greek mythology is one of the scholars main target for its charming artistic and excellence achievements,however, researchers have always been accustomed to explain from the literary, religious, historical, social and other aspect about Greek mythology,but the perspective of ecological aesthetics and interpretation of their interpretation of words can be described as minimal. Therefore, this paper attempts to recent and interpret by theories of ecological aesthetics, make a more comprehensive new study with Greek myth, this thesis is divided into three parts:The first part is the ecological aesthetics concept, content and generates the background exposition. Ecological Aesthetics is a full of vitality and is a ecological theory contain the aesthetic dimension of, including human and nature, man and society and people's own eco-aesthetic relationship. It bases ecological overall as its value, philosophy of ecological as its philosophy basis. It included the aesthetic category such as:the existence of ecological, the Quartet Game, Poetic, homes consciousness, ecological criticism and so on. The production of Ecological aesthetics is inseparable from the certain economic and social basis and philosophical and cultural background. First, from the economic and social background, industrialization and modernization in addition to bring wealth and prosperity for mankind, there are predatory on the development of natural resources and worsening environmental pollution, ecological aesthetics is came into being depend on extreme expansion and deterioration of the environment; Secondly, from the cultural background level, ecological theory has gone through from the anthropocentric to bio-centrism and finally to the evolution of ecological holism; from a philosophical background level, the eco-aesthetic theory production is based on the existence of traditional epistemology to the contemporary transformation as the philosophical background.The second part is the elaboration of Greek mythology by ecological aesthetics. This part is the body of the paper, discuss system for three aspects. The first is discussed the natural ecology of Greek mythology, myth is not only provides us many increasing ecological picture of pure harmony, but we realized the man from nature, rooted in nature, ecology and natural solidarity philosophy through the creation myth. In Greek mythology, there is life and soul in everything, so some things were worshiped by primitive ancestors,in their view, the desecration of nature will naturally be met with retaliation, and from "the world's cured Enchantment "to now" part of the world re-enchantment "also allows us to see a new relationship between Man and Nature; the second, it discussed of the social ecology of Greek mythology, Greek mythology shows us a harmony and unity community with heaven, earth, human, and God, which is very different from contemporary consumer society. In addition, in Greek mythology, there are many myths about the goddess and the female narrative, these myths in some ways as the support and under the for the emergence of ecological feminism and its development, and many Greek mythology describes the "fate tragedy" in contemporary is give us a strong ecological enlightenment; finally, discusses the spirit ecology of Greek mythology, to awaken people to explore the enthusiasm of life world, through the ecological interpretation of love, home awareness of Greek mythology.The third part discusses the significance and value of Greek mythology by ecological aesthetics. Greek mythology contains ecological aesthetics can not cover everything, this study firstly preliminary exploration and mining the origin of ecological harmony of he, secondly, further explores the perspective of ecological aesthetics on research myth, be combination of "Greek Mythology" and "ecological aesthetics" is in terms of revealing whether for the ecological aesthetics research or other ecological literature.
Keywords/Search Tags:Greek mythology, ecological aesthetics, natural ecology, social ecology, spiritual ecology
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