From The Pleasure Of Aesthetics

People are always very interested in the relationship between the pleasure and the aesthetical feeling, so many philosophers gave explains on it in the history, and today some books also focused on it. The pleasure and the aesthetical feeling sometimes seem united tightly, sometimes seem faraway from each other, and sometimes seem opposite. With the analysis of many phenomena about the pleasure and the aesthetical feeling, a conclusion that accepted by most people has been drawn. It is that the pleasure is the sensation of the animal, but the aesthetical feeling is the peculiar sensation of the human being. They have close relationship and the aesthetical feeling is the sublimation of the pleasure. But what is the difference between them, and how can the pleasure sublimate to the aesthetical feeling? People have not got a further answer yet. But these questions are the basic questions of the research on the aesthetics, on with many studies of the aesthetical phenomena are developed. So the answers to these questions have great signification. With the development of the present society, the material living is enhanced, and the thought is liberated, so many kinds of needs of the sense organs are met sufficiently. And the commercial economy also makes the pleasure as the most effective means to get the biggest profit, so it seems that people have endless needs to meet, endless new sensation to buy and new tides to chase. In this chasing, but people seem to loss their aesthetical feeling gradually. So the study of the relationship between the pleasure and the aesthetical feeling has the great and pressing practical meaning to our society.The human being evolves from the animal, and the aesthetical feeling develops from the pleasure which is the base and the premise of the aesthetical feeling. The pleasure is the encouraging mechanism which encouraging the life to get something beneficial to life and all our sense organ can experience the pleasure. Summarizing the fruits of the aesthetical feeling study in the history, we can draw such a conclusion that the aesthetical feeling is the affectional reaction to the things around; the aesthetical feeling is delighted but without...