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The Research Of Human And Esthetics About Pre-Qin Confucian

Posted on:2008-07-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z M DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215996770Subject:Literature and art
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Abandoning the traditional perspective of esthetics, this article discusses the Pre-QinConfucianist's esthetics' theory from a higher esthetics philosophy level, and attemptsto explore the Confucianist view, which has had the profound influence on theChinese civilization, affects the Chinese esthetics' theory.The point is the relationshipof human and esthetics, the relationship of ideal and esthetics. The human and theesthetics are being bound by a common destiny.The human's ideal can be the bestbeautiful thing, the esthetics' destination is the human's morals. All of these areimportant esthetics' propositions in modern age. In nowadays, from this level, Pre-QinConfucianist's esthetics does not limit in narrow pragmatism and instmmentalism,because the key subject of the Pre-Qin Confucianist is 'the benevolence', and exactly'the benevolence' is the morality and the style which belong to the ideal gentleman.We will know the human's ideal and human's construction through studying theChina's humanitarianism pursues. But human's ideal has inevitable relation with theChinese tradition esthetics' pursue.Chinese tradition view of 'the God will is human will ' and the rationalism all hasinfluenced the China humanitarianism directly, and the Pre-Qin Confucianist view hasinherited this proposition main representative. 'The ideal person' was the pursue ofthe Confucianist, and also should be the pursue of each average person. Not onlythe Confucian scholar wants to be diligent, the introspection, leads a pious life, paysattention to own growth, simultaneously also must popularize this kind of idealboundary the people, and use this 'benevolence' theory to organize and construct thesociety. Confucianist's ideal person includes two important aspects about 'theexcellent in both moral character and in governing'. Most perfect 'the benevolence'—sage's ideal boundary is one kind 'does as pleases not the exceed distance' the freeboundary. This is an esthetics' view. Under its direction had raised the moderateperson, including artists, also produced 'the neutral beauty'. But not each man all can achieve this kind esthetics' boundary, the majority people all in the wisdom ethicsmorals ideal level. The key point and the innovation of this article is how does thiskind of wisdom ideal change into esthetic, and influence to esthetics. Pre-QinConfucianist's ethics morals requests rich comprehensive, to forms positively,optimistic, present personality. But it is not actually as the traditional explanationchange esthetics into a tool. It accumulates in Chinese's unconsciousness throughgeneration's 'ideally' transmission and also accumulates in esthetic. It has theprofound influence to the personality esthetics and the natural beauty of moralanalogy in Chinese traditional esthetics.
Keywords/Search Tags:Pre-Qin Confucianist, ideal, moderate, personality esthetics, moral analogy
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