A Study Of Xufuguan's Hermeneutical System Of Art

As a part of XuFuguan's new confucianism, that how much profound connotation does his hermeneutical system of art contain,and what is its theoretic and realistic meaning?it is the theme which the paper will study. Its study is not only the development of XuFuguan's new Confucianism system, but also of enlightened importance in developing and deepening the whole modern Confucianism. The main contents are as follows:In the introduction, this paper uses the western hermeneutics as reference frame in the introduction, and checks cultural tradition, times , individualistic factor which affect XuFuguan' s hermeneutic.Chapter 1 probes into the history background of XuFuguan' s hermeneutical system of art ,it contains two aspects,namely, human cultural predicament in modern times caused by modern crisis and the appearance and the popularity of modernism in Taiwan. XuFuguan criticizes the first aspect from the following three fields: modern man's nihilism outlook on value has decided "people's satisfaction with things as they are" on life, "rootlessness" and unrestraint on culture. The fundamental reason that modernism appears and popularizes in Taiwan lies in the individual awakening led by Taiwan's economic development in 1950s - 1960s and the situation of "Cultural desert" brought about by Kuomingtang doesn't have proper stage of self-expression and development. Consequently, the young in Taiwan introduces declined modernism from the west. The basic feature and value seeking in Taiwan's modernism culture and painting developed under such condition revolt the Chinese traditional culture and painting. So it makes XuFuguan Criticizes from natural image's destruction, spiritual body's closure and violencism tendency. It can be said that the study of history background does realistic work for the discussion of revealing the deep connotation of XuFuguan's the system.Chapter2 explains the philosophic basic of XuFuguan' s the system ,it also contains two aspects: humanism that centralizes on "Xinxinglun" and culture philosophy centralizes on"heart". The former mainly discusses three fields' content: the accomplishment of "Xinxinglun", the problem of "culivating" and "rearing" ,and the problem of "material". This is the basic analysis on Chinese culture connotation; The latter mainly discusses that how does XuFuguan establish his philosophy of "heart's culture" from culture limitation of historic significance, meanwhile, in his opinion, the "heart's culture" is a kind of practicality culture not a kind of metaphysics. This is hisanalysis on basic character of Chinese culture. These two points forms XuFuguan' s Special "heart theory" ,it can be said that the reveal in philosophy base of XuFuguan' s system does theoretic work for the discussion of studying this system.Chapter3 discusses the establishment of two artistic models,it is the artistic thinking base in forming Xufuguan' s "art for human life", because in his view, he thinks that the artistic spirit in Chinese culture, in the final analysis, only has two kinds of artistic life models which are demonstrated by Confucius and Daoist. What confucius expresses is the unity of benevolence and music, and this is the unification of morality and art. Toward this human life, XuFuguan emphasizes in confucius' s "music theory" the identity of "ren " (iZ ) and "music" in the value root, So music can promote the enlightenment of personality. Through XuFuguan' s analysis on "music without sounds", his tenor of "art for human life" is shown obviously. What Zhuangzi expresses is a kind of pure artistic life. Toward this kind of human life, XuFuguan borrows Kant1 s aesthetic theory and proves that Zhuangzi's "floating" is a conscious state of aesthetic judgement, as excluding all things connected with efficacy and interest, and as being in the free state without purpose ,it is a pure artistic human life, moreover, he uses Husserl's intentionalitat theory and believes that Zhuangzi's "superficial calm heart" is a pure artistic spirit body. The establishment of the two artistic models in XuFuguan' s the system provides theoretic basis for him to pierce personality accomplishments through his hermeneutic.Chapter4 discusses the connections between Confucian personality accomplishments and literature,it is a reflection of XuFuguan1 s piercing personality through hermeneutic of art, he thinks that this connection is the result of Confucius artistic spirit about literature enlightenment. The reason that he connects literature with personality accomplishment is that: through the study of WenXinDiaolong, he removes literary metaphysics and makes the literature established on the fundation of life ontology, while the life used as literary noumenon is not a pure individual nature life but a moral life that has alone much work of accomplishments, this moral life is not only a revelation of personality and it is certain to be promoted into the home, the country and the world to burden its deserved responsibility, literary individuality and sociality get unification in a living organ with accomplishments work.Chapter5 discusses the connections between Daoist personality accomplishments and landscape,it is another reflection of XuFuguan' s piercing the personality accomplishments through his hermeneutic. He thinks that such connection is the result of Zhuangzi's artistic spirit fulfilled in landscape. From the three aspects of artistic form, artistic style and artistic accomplishments, XuFuguan expounds and proves that how theartistic spirit gradually is realized in Chinese landscape. From the part of artistic form, Chinese landscape express something from the human soul to the charm of the landscape and from multicolored landscape to ink landscape, this is because "yun" (t$J) and "mo" ( H ) are features of Zhuangzi's Spirit. On the part of artistic style, the highest style of Chinese landscape is the appearance of "yi" ($|) and the self-concious of "yuan" (izt) , similarly, this is because "yi" and "yuan" are also features of Zhuangzi's spirit. On the part of artistic accomplishments, Chinese landscape is from "having laws" to "without laws", "nil" is the feature of Zhuangzi's spirit. Through the discussion of three parts, XuFuguan points out what is the actual meaning in landscape and art, he believes that the actual meaning in art to achieve the noble of personality. Thus his thought of "art for life" finishes.chapter6 makes a general evaluation on XuFuguan' s the system. It includes three aspects' content: the conclusion, the limitation and the enlightenment. As regard to the conclusion of this system, there are two points: taking art to promote the enlightenment of humanity n inducing art. In this system lies in that XuFuguan excavates the value root of art from human concrete living; the limitation of this system is expressed in culture conservatism' s position and the exclusion of artistic relative independence.The former is the reason and the latter is the result. That is to say, his position on culture conservatism has limited his view on art; There are also two points with the regard to the enlightenment of this system: First, it can enlarge the domain of modern new Confucianism. Second, it will supply us with enlightened thinking in constructing Chinese modern aesthetic system.