Ecological Aesthetics: A New Aesthetic Theory

Modern science and technology as a double-edged sword, it has greatly enriched our material life, but also bring about the crisis of the ecological balance and the spirit balance. Extremely social pressure of competition and the material society make people's spirit of ecological into the abyss of loss and confusion. Mankind as a conscious being, began to ask ourselves: Where do we start taking the wrong way? In this background, ecological aesthetics come into being. Ecological aesthetics in the post-modern context, with a new perspective, to look at the relationship between people and nature, man and society ,man and theirselves. Ecological aesthetics pays careful attention to the survival state of"not aesthetic"of mankind ,and finds out a special incision in the cross of the ecology and aesthetic disciplines and ponders the aesthetic state of mankind in the ontology angle.This article, from the ecological crisis and the ecological imbalance of the human spirit to start to study the philosophy basis of ecological aesthetics, the value of position, and the inheritance and development of the relationship between the ecological aesthetic and traditional aesthetic and the guiding significance of the realities of human and reality.Present is a era which the loss of humanistic spirit and the absence of aesthetic education. Ecological aesthetics may improve the imharmony relationship between of man and nature, man and society,man and theirselves by aesthetic education. Ecological aesthetics may reconstruct again the original relationship between man and nature, man and society, man and theirselves, and restore people the people of full freedom of individuality and build the better and harmony spiritual home of human. We can use this new aesthetic theory to make a useful attempt to cope with the problem faced by human of ecological crisis and the human spirit crisis.