Noble Face - The Aesthetic Form Of Research

It is found that aesthetic activities has not been understood and interpreted with the method of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics as what it is by some scholars. Aesthetics is taken for granted as the science of sensibility with aesthetic activities as only perspective and feeling, and the science of beauty, to which the essence of beauty is pursued as knowledge is still popular. That means aesthetics is still in lost as the science of sensibility despite of the disillusion of Global Aestheticization. In view of this, an attempt has been made to re-explain aesthetic categories with the sublime as the central form of aesthetic activities in order to fully display and totally understand the ontological nature of aesthetic activities and to correct the partial understanding of aesthetics as the science of sensibility.It is argued in this dissertation that aesthetic activities is a kind of reason to pursue Being with imagination and intuition and the sublime is the most typical aesthetic activities to form a world view in imagination. The objectification of the sublime varies as myth, religion and ontology so as to lay a foundation of human being, thus the sublime is both the primitive sensibility and the primitive reason, and it is priori to other aesthetic activities such as the beautiful, the tragic and the comic both logically and historically.The sublime varies in the form of the beautiful, the tragic and the comic because it is non-objectified. It takes the forms of the tragic, the comic, the beauty-itself of Plato and God of Christianity before it is discussed as aesthetic category, after that, it is one of the aesthetic categories. Each aesthetic activity is a form of the sublime and surely return the sublime. Any aesthetic activity will not be aesthetic if it does not contain the sublime. The disillusion of the dream of beauty, the entertainment of television and the flooding of the comic show that what aesthetic activities wound be without the sublime.It is also argued that Chinese aesthetic activities is close to the sublime as the action to pursue Dao, but it tends to ignore and forget the sublime, which turns out to phenomena such as the lack of the tragic, the ideas of aestheticism and the tradition of aesthetics replacing religion. Aestheticization without the sublime, such as Li Zehou's emotional being, has no ultimate concern. So emphasize the sublime is very much urgent to the Chinese.It is not argued to replace other aesthetic activities with the sublime. The only purpose to stress the primitive and original of the sublime is to show the ontological nature of aesthetic activities and to criticize the partial understanding of aesthetic activities as just sensibility. Since aesthetic activities is ontological, it is actually reason rather than sensibility. The misunderstanding of aesthetics as mere sensibility should be ended with the accepting of the ontological nature of aesthetics. It leads to a conclusion that aesthetic activities is the activities of reason whit sensibility as its' appearance and aesthetics is the Hermeneutics of the activities of reason in the form of sensibility.