The "culture" Of Xunzi's Aesthetic

This article sets a cut-in point to us through theory of nature of Xunzi to Look for Xunzi's "civilization of rite ". Here "culture" contains humanization, living, tasting, situationization, it is the vocabulary to express dynamic procedure. Culture is Xunzi's philosophy keyword. It is the bourn attained that Xunzi self-cultivates on the temperament, also we comprehend Xunzi with core keyword "rite "enlightened by education idea of aesthetics. First of all, theory of nature of Xunzi is the proposition misunderstood. It doesn't means nature of man is bad, but it is unrestrained natural, still not man-made reconstruction. Xunzi said "nature can be reconstructed ". This only means distinguished man from animals and other creation, man can become natural character of true man after man-made reconstruction. This is actual humanism essence of Xunzi. Thus we can locate "civilization of rite" of Xunzi from two respects. Firstly, through life—nature—feeling—beauty we comprehend "civilization of rite " of Xunzi, continuously self-cultivating by means of individual comes to attain to willingly sticking to rite, this intrinsic stratum is the sign to be conscious of the introspection self that accelerates man at distinguishing from man. Secondly, It is also intrinsic main part of man stipulation. Nature and mankind's social life have a foothold somewhere outside. Through heaven—man—rite—culture—beauty, we investigate the humanity system going away with history development course on well-educated evolution route. The two respects is the intrinsic and extrinsic regularity of man in fact. It is uniting logic and history, "intrinsic natural personalization "and "extrinsic natural personalization ". Through stipulation of "nature", "culture", "Rite", we find Xunzi starts theory of human nature, finally attains stipulation of rite, and "culture" plays utmost importance role. Viewing nature with culture, we discover, nature and feeling Affection is the same in the articles of Xunzi. Regulating rite with culture, we discover, rite is the supremeness conduct of civil culture, it finally points to community harmonies. Yet we discuss about nature of culture in itself and intrinsic regularity of rite. By investigating we discover thatculture has three aspects. First culture is culture and action of man. Second culture is practicing divination action in itself and embodying terror and superstition substance shape and polish maneuver. Third culture is stipulation and polish that political community served. Through the foregoing, culture has difference meanings, also there is difference significance. Culture has a process from extrinsic quality competing to intrinsic aware. Finally we begin with enlightened education idea of aesthetic through Confucian school of Xunzi and discuss closely modern sense of Xunzi's aesthetic idea. Famous modern educator Cai Yuanpei proposed "take the place of the religion with aesthetic education", standing for aesthetic education with aesthetic feeling replacing religious feeling, aesthetic feeling replacing religious feeling idea, has distinctive modern reason doctrine, and has point communicating with ancient reason doctrine against Xunzi's relation of religion and aesthetic. This is the most valuable element in the interest of Xunzi's aesthetic.