Influence Study Of Chinese Eco-Thought In Western Environmental Aesthetics

Environmental aesthetics is a new paradigm of aesthetics gradually emerging in the context of increasingly severe environmental crisis,which is beyond the traditional human-centered aesthetic concept.The core of environmental aesthetics is the aesthetic value and meaning of nature,the influence of the relationship between man and nature on aesthetic,and the ethical responsibility of environmental aesthetics.Environmental aesthetics split out from the Western modern aesthetic in the 19 th century,and then become one of the main contents of the Aesthetic Study in the 20 th century.Based on the global characteristics of environmental problems,environmental aesthetics is not exclusive to the Western or Eastern scholars.Environmental aesthetics breaks the boundaries of race,region and ideology,and has become a subject of global aesthetics researchers concerned.Influenced by the western spiritual crisis,environmental crisis and the rediscovery of oriental thoughts,environmental aestheticians have advanced on the basis of scientific aesthetics the 19 th century.Allen Carlson established the theory of environmental aesthetics with scientific aesthetics as the core and put forward the affirmative aesthetics of “natural beauty”.Compared with Carlson,Aldo Leopold profoundly rethinks the Scientism Environmental Aesthetics.Leopold's Land Ethic empowers nature with right and even emotion.Attention to the scientific knowledge of the objective attitude did not make him indifferent to nature,he stressed that people should instinctively love the wilderness.His ethics is more close to the post-modern,oriental spirit.Yrj? Sep?nmaa's aesthetics is a synthesis of Carlson and Leopold's ideas,he further improved the positive aesthetics,and trying to balance the scientific and natural experience.He focused on the Zen aesthetics,the human and natural equality and harmony,which make him began to focus on ecological aesthetics outside of environmental aesthetics.Environmental philosophy and environmental ethics further promote the integration of Chinese and Western environmental aesthetic ideas.As the representative of the environmental philosophers,Eugene C.Hargrove,Albert Schweitzer and Holmes Rolston,explores the value of Chinese traditional wisdom to western environmental thought,and their theories promote the enrichment of Western environmentalist thought from the perspective of environmental ethics.Hargrove recognized the inherent value of nature,proposed the “weak anthropocentrism” view of the environment.He found some thoughts are close to nature in western non-mainstream thinking,which are also for him to try to learn from traditional Chinese wisdom provides a possibility.Schweitzer proposed environmental concept reverence for life on the basis of reflecting on the western traditional ethics.The core of this view is to coordinate the relationship between man and nature under the premise of respect of all life forms.Oriental wisdom occupies an important position in Schweitzer's environmental philosophy.Compared with Hargrove and Schweitzer,Rolston's research on Chinese traditional thought is more concrete.His aesthetic view of environment is an extension of his environmental ethic principle.He introduced Zen and Taoism into the study of environmental aesthetics.Under the influence of the conception of environmental ethics which accumulates the Eastern thought,environmental aestheticians began to borrow a great deal from the traditional Chinese thought,and even directly convert the traditional Chinese aesthetic,social ethics and natural concepts to environmental thinking and aesthetic practice.Gary Snyder's environmental aesthetic view is full of religious feelings.He has injected the aesthetic spirit of landscape based on Zen's thought for the western environmental aesthetics.Zen eliminate barriers between man and nature,and the thought of Chinese traditional aesthetics on Landscape guide the environmentalists to the wider wilderness.On the basis of Snyder's thoughts,David Pepper started with interdisciplinary study of ecology and politics,hoping to achieve more environmental practices outside the poetic world.He is committed to resolving the current environmental crisis at the political and social levels.Constructive postmodern philosophy is the integration and promotion of Snyder,Pepper and others' environmental concepts.On the basis of Whitehead's process philosophy,represented by David Ray Griffin,postmodern philosophers reflects on the shortcomings of modernity,and they advocate the establishment of a new comprehensive world view in the way of “re-enchantment”.Influenced by Chinese traditional wisdom,Arnold Berleant established environmental aesthetics with participation aesthetics as the core.He advocated the connoisseurs to participate in the process of environmental aesthetics through his personal sensory experience.This view is of great significance to the development of environmental aesthetics from anthropocentrism to ecological aesthetics.Mary Evelyn Tucker's practice of participating in Aesthetic Ideology at the social level provided more ideas for the development of environmental aesthetics.Tucker hoped finding inspiration to solve ecological problems from the ecological thoughts of Taoism and Confucian society ecological ideas.Environmental philosophy,environmental ethics and ecological philosophy contribute to the development and enrichment of environmental aesthetics.Oriental traditional thought plays an important role,especially the classical garden,traditional academy,landscape painting and other aesthetic paradigm and the traditional Chinese philosophy of nature and so on.However,the Chinese culture itself has its complex characteristics,the Chinese traditional Confucianism,Buddhism,Taoist view of nature is not entirely the same.Some Western environmental aestheticians have misunderstood the Chinese traditional natural aesthetics and ecological ethical thoughts,and different environmental aestheticians have different degrees of research on Chinese traditional thought.This also affects the combination of Chinese traditional thoughts and environmental aesthetics to a great extent.How to apply Chinese traditional thoughts to environmental aesthetics and ecological aesthetics research still needs to be further explored.