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The Communication Between The Nature And The Morality By The Model Of Aesthetic Symbolism

Posted on:2008-04-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z P LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215499732Subject:Aesthetics
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Kant studied the a priori conditions of human knowledge and morality's possibility in his Critique Philosophy. But in fact the moral world constructed on the pure practical rules from "Critique of Practical Reason" is unable to coordinate with the experical world which follows general natural laws. And there is enormous wide gaps not only between nature and freedom but between cognition and morality. "Critique of Judgment" attempts to unite both sides through a kind of mediation. This kind of mediation focuses on coordinate consequence of different application of the reason in the real world. Kant placed hope on this aesthetic kind of mediation of making the intermediary. On fully "Critique of Judgment" clued on the connection between aesthetics and morality which makes the third critique play a role of connection between theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy in system.The theoretical intention of Kant embodies mostly at the demonstration of "beauty as the symbol of morality". It is not a kind of moral behavior to be aesthetic. Beautiful things and morality do not have direct relation in content. What the research indicates in the paper should be that beauty as a kind of free intuition can become moral symbolic intuition because of the resemblance between the aesthetic judgment and the moral judgment. Its foundation lies in the automony of judgment in which the two kinds of judgments are same in structural generality. The autonomic characteristic of such common judgements has a kind of substantive meaning here, that is, it has determined that the aesthetic freedom becomes intuition of the moral freedom. On such basis, the aesthetic automony has a kind of real effect of promoting the moral automony. So it offers a kind of theory to prove the ethical transition from the nature.In the first part of the paper through a appropriate kind of consideration about "Pure Reason Critique" and "Practical Reason Critique", we explain concrete meanings of explaining word "wide gap" used when Kant described the disunion state within Critique Philosophy, how to produce and how to overcome. This kind of analysis has offered a kind of question back- ground for the paper. What the second part of the paper should indicate is that Kant has proved the a priori condition of the pleasant and unpleasant emotion through the critique of the aesthetic judgement, and his most important theory intention is to want for the coordination between the sense world and the moral world, seek a kind of real mediation route, and overcome the wide gap.In the third part we investigate Kant's theory demand communicating the nature and the morality through aesthetics as the intermediary. We have a thorough explaination about the proposition "beauty as the symbol of morality" from Kant, and a appropriate kind of consideration about relevant argumentations in the "practical anthropology". We call that a kind of "aesthetically symbolic mode" on the basis of Kant's proposition. We think it was another theoretic effort to building the Noumenonn Human different from" Practical Reason Critique".
Keywords/Search Tags:the Critique Phlosophy, gap, aesthetics, morality, communication
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