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The Concept "Observing Law Of Naturalness And Cherishing Truth" In Zhuangzi's Aesthetic Sense

Posted on:2012-05-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335963263Subject:Literature and art
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In Zhuangzi's life time, the society were in intense turbulent, and the people's life werevariable. In order to get stretch of spiritual world freedom of life, Zhuangzi returned to the"Sky"(nature) and the "Zhen"(true or real), he advocated natural and pure humanity and claimed"Observing Law of Naturalness and Cherishing Truth, not controlled by secular". In this viewpoint,Zhuangzi pursued the authentic meaning of life, and the freedom of individual personality. InZhuangzi's view, Aesthetics is the perceptual aesthetic experience on the valuable direction of thetheory. Firstly, starting with the discussion of the connotation of the "Sky"(nature) and the"Zhen"(true or real), my paper expounds other involved connotations:"Nature","Taoist" and the"void-quietness", which involving three propositions: "XinZhai"心斋, "ZuoWang"坐忘,"WuHua"物化. Then I extended the aesthetic connotations of the view from these concepts.Secondly, the viewpoint of "Observing Law of Naturalness and Cherishing Truth" represents akind of aesthetic realm, representatives of this state is "True Man", the way to achieve it isperipatetic; It also contains the aesthetics view of "void-quietness", which people can achieve thestate of "the unity of heaven and humanity "in the enlightenment of " void-quietness". Theaesthetics view of "void-quietness" contains three propositions of aesthetic experience: "XinZhai"is a method, "ZuoWang" is the process, and "WuHua" is the highest level of it. The view's aestheticinterest expression is that: the artificial, pursue the natural and simplicity; against theaffectation, pursue the natural. Finally, the view's influence on future generations is discussed:itinfluenced the creators of literary pursuits the "nature" and "simple". The aesthetics view of "void-quietness" forms a kind of spirit of Chinese traditional art that it pays great attention to romanticcharm and spiritual expression. And the aesthetics view of "void-quietness" opened up a state of"mood" in Chinese classical and unique Aesthetics; the viewpoint affects the future generations topursuit the aesthetic personality, namely, natural and unfettered, hermit personality.
Keywords/Search Tags:Observing Law of Naturalness, Cherishing Truth, Aesthetics, Influence
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