Aesthetics Of Zhuangzi In The Vision Of Hermeneutics

This thesis, starting with the point of hermeneutics and the original context of aesthetics of Zhuangzi, tries to explore the original sights in the Book of Maser Zhuang and the hermeneutic position hidden behind and perceive aesthetics of Zhuangzi from the point of human being's living environment. The author thinks that aesthetics of Zhuangzi is neither a sort of purely imaginary fantasy nor a reasoning game with which to escape the reality, but a sort of aesthetic inquiry which originates from the real context and is full of zeal human consern. It is also rooted in the living human world, has the heavy reality as the explaining context and has a close relationship with the current society and cultural context. Zhaungzi is the first man to realize the loss of the meaning of original state of the human life within the process of the human development and the foundation of the social order. Then he goes on relocating the individual's position in society based on the terminal hermeneutics, discovers the various explaining utterances hiding the original state of the human life and leads people to the clearness within the re-explanation of the relationship between human beings and the world. There are three pairs of relationship involved in hermeneutics, they are man and world, man and others (all creatures), and man and language, which lead three basic questions: people's location in the world, the relation location among people, and the interaction between man and language. Zhuangzi, who sets some kind of transcending explanatory latitude, unfolds the various value bond existing in the human mind and speaks the original state of the human life freely. The whole thesis is divided into five parts. Instruction: in this part some basic questions involved in the thesis are introduced and defined clearly. Chapter One focuses on Zhuangzi's interpretation of the relationship between man and the world. Zhuangzi deconstructs human's practice towards the world by "uselessness"and refuses to orientate the status of oneself through the collective reference value, establishing the harmonious relationship between human being and the world by "free strolling". Thus, Zhuangzi holds the vital and idyllic life as the reference system of individual value instead of the realization of indifferent collective value. Chapter two discusses zhuangzi's interpretation of the relationship among human beings. According to Zhuangzi, the relationship between man and transcending is embraced in the objective relationship among people, which is dispelled by "mutual forgetting". He advocates removing the narrow stand of individual and treating people with an opening attitude and furthermore establishing a kind of idyllic connection among people. Thus the relationship among people should be a kind of mental connection based on spiritual exchange under the transcending realm of "Tao"instead of mutual attacks with weapons. Chapter three centers on Zhuangzi's interpretation of language. In the relationship...