Lvying Aesthetic Thought

As an important esthetician in the history of Chinese contemporary aesthetics, Lu Ying made a prominent contribution to the Chinese contemporary aesthetics, so he deserved to be remembered forever.The customary research on the aesthetic thoughts of Lu Ying mentioned him with subjective group in the same breath, which did not grasp the genuine theory base of the aesthetics of Lu Ying and made it difficult to understand his contribution in the process of investigation on the essence of beauty. So this text tries to grasp his aesthetic thoughts on the whole in order to sum up the basic character of the aesthetics of Lu Ying from his opinions on the essence of beauty and the aesthetic feeling, hereby we can make an objective and exact appraisal on his status and contributions to Chinese contemporary aesthetics.The preface introduces mainly the actuality of the research on the aesthetic thoughts of Lu Ying, and expatiates the necessary of the research on his aesthetic thoughts.The first chapter summarizes the lifetime of Lu Ying and his learning way to pursue and explore the beauty, based on which, we reflect and hackle the basic spirit of his aesthetic thoughts and orient its status on the contemporary aesthetic history to grasp the holistic visage of the aesthetic thoughts of Lu Ying.The second chapter, as the keystone of the thesis, hackles and analyses the aesthetic thoughts of Lu Ying in the following three aspects: his views on the essence of beauty, the theory of his aesthetic feeling, and his discussion on the categories of beauty. Firstly. Lu Ying pondered profoundly at the essence of beauty from the angle of the dialectic relations of the life and the human conception as well as the existence and consciousness of the society, then he drew a special conclusion thatBeauty was a kind of human conception. Secondly, Lu Ying discussed theconnection of the beauty and aesthetic feeling by the means of epistemology, thereby he gave prominence to the status of the human on the theory of the aesthetic feeling. Finally, Lu Ying expounded the beauty of the nature and society, and pointed out the particularity of the taste practice and the important function of the practice of the society and taste in the process of the formation of the beauty of the nature and society.The third chapter analyses and discusses the historic status of the aesthetic thoughts of Lu Ying and the significance to the current aesthetic research from three aspects. The aesthetic thoughts of Lu Ying take emphasis on significant effect and status of the principle part of the taste, which has an important influence on the trend of attaching importance to the human in the current aesthetic circles. So we must consider earnestly the fruits and deficiencies of his study.The part of epilogue suggests that we absorb the reasonable element of the aesthetic thoughts of Lu Ying and transcend its theory localization to develop his aesthetic thoughts and advance the development of the Chinese aesthetics in the new century.