Road And The Arts - "zhuangzi's Philosophy, Aesthetics Thought And Literature And Art

The book is not only a masterpiece of philosophy, but also an excellentliterature work. The profound aesthetic thoughts and art theory which contains in it hasalways been the headspring of creative practice and theory development in Chineseliterature. Being the early stage philosophy writing after the disintegration of primitiveliterature, it took on the integral function of philosophy to the culture collectivity, andplayed as a primary and whole knowledge, which represented the metaphysicalontology of 'Tao' in philosophy. embodies the perfect combination ofphilosophy connotation with literature expressive force, that is, the mysterious andfar-reaching 'Tao' philosophy fuses with the rich and profound literature expression artand comes into being an integral whole, which possesses great influence and infinitecaptivation. Being the subject matter of primary and whole knowledge, 'Tao' has the inherentspiritual relationship with the primitive literature which including witchcraft andreligion, and therefore is the expression of the existence of human material and mentalintegration. Accordingly, it not only is the product of ideology, but also directlycorrelates with the rich and concrete human activity, practice and life experience. Thecharacteristic mentioned above is the major premise that should be taken into accountfirstly, based on which the discussion on philosophy thoughts, aesthetic art theory andliterature creative practice of could be carried out. The thought of philosophy ontology in had reached a summit of theChinese philosophy thought, which also presented the consistence with the philosophythought containing in the western modern physics. It is because that both of themsurmounted the daily experience of the phenomena world, and reached a highercognitive level. Although the ontology philosophy in was formed mainlyfrom the practice and experience, it had the clue of epistemology about the objectivenature similar to the modern science. The materials of this aspect were no other than theepilogue expression and judgment, and the practical demonstration is hard to carry out.Based on the western modern physics, this paper tries to elucidate the mechanism of theunification of 'Tao' with combining internal and external, subjective and objective. Ontology philosophy is the core of , and is the main topic to discuss inthis paper, which related profoundly with language phenomena, thought style,subjective spiritual ambit etc. Based on the grasp of the philosophy essentialconnotation of , the deep and meticulous investigation was carried outabout the aesthetic, literature theory and literature creative expression. Especialdiscussion was carried out on the 'parable-metaphor' language style, which is powerfulin theory initiation and literature expression, with emphasizing the unique characteristicand charm of the confusion of 'Tao' and art, logic and phenomena. The paper is constituted by five chapters, the former three chapters of which discussthe philosophical content of 'Tao', the latter two chapters of which probe into the arttheory and practice. It was demonstrated that the two aspects are mixed together, whichhelp to understand the primary and whole knowledge essence of .