Both Natural And Free - Zhuangzi And Kant's Ideas

It is imperative that we should review the relationship between human and nature. In this respect, the thought of Zhuangzi and Kant were typical theory in their respective culture. Kant regarded nature knowable as merely presentation and firmly believe that nature is subject to the law of causality. In addition, Kant maintained that human's feeling, desire and partiality is part of nature, therefore, they are subject to the law of causality too. On the other hand, human are free when they were look upon as subject of moral. All there viewpoint brought about the alienation between human and nature in theory. He want carried out the theoretical integration of human's feeling and reason in aesthetics, and fulfilled the theoretical integration of human and nature in teleology. However, the final conclusion of Kant reached was that human should be regard as ultimate end, which will be take as an excuse to oppress and exploit nature by those greedy man. Zhuangzi hold an organic and dynamic outlook on nature, he considered that nature was free as well as human. Furthermore, in zhuangzi's opinion, the viewpoint that human superior to nature not only result in the alienation between human and nature, but also conducive to the alienation of oneself and the confusion of society. So he suggested that we should treat nature as equal. Similar to Kant, Zhuangzi hoped himself could integrate human and nature in the progress of aesthetic judgment and arts. He supposed that people are able to harmonize themselves with nature when they were intoxicated with experience of aesthetic. But Zhuangzi firmly rejected the teleology. He deemed that we can return into nature only when we abandon the anthropocentricism. Kant thought that the moral society constructed by human's hand is an ideal society, but his ideal society is one that isolate from nature. On the contrary, Zhuangzi's ideal society is one in which human are closely intimate with nature.