Poetry And Music. "the Analects Of Confucius" - The Analects Of Confucius Aesthetic Practicality And Integrity

Poetry and music occupy an important position in the aesthetics of Confucius, more important, poetry and music is an integral part of social life and playing a functional role in social life in the Analects, for example, cultivation of morality, education, ethics and so on. Compared to the situation we have today, poetry and music playing a greater role in that era, at the same time, this also means that poetry and music are closely linked with other parts of the Confucius thoughts. This paper is going to dissertate the practicality and totality of the aesthetics of Confucius mainly through studying the functions of poetry and music and the relationship of poetry, music, goodness and ritual. Firstly, the practicality and totality of the aesthetics of Confucius in the Analects are illuminated as a whole in chapter one, this kind of illumination is put in the specific situations provided by The Analects, especially in the situations related to the poetry and music, and accentuates that the practicality and totality is the practicality and totality of the life. In chapter one, the first quarter are written exclusively to construe the signification of the word Study, and point out that the practicality and totality are included in the process of Study, to be the main object of study, poetry and music embody the two dimensionalities consequentially. Next, this paper mainly dissertates the specific functions of the poetry and music. The analysis of the functions is lean to the practicality of the aesthetics of Confucius. Poetry and music is able to realize their own significance and value of existence mainly when exploit their advantages in the social life. The last chapter review the relationship of poetry, music, goodness and ritual. The analysis of the relationship is lean to the totality of the aesthetics of Confucius. Equally, Poetry and music is able to define itself in the relationship between other objects. From the overall discussion of this paper, the practicality and the totality are related to each other actually, and this kind of relationship exists in the concrete social life. Although the laterality exists in the analysis of the functions and the relationship, they also come down to the practicality and totality of the aesthetics of Confucius. On all accounts, on the one hand to study the the poetry and music in The Analects through practicality and totality, on the other hand to indicate the practicality and totality of the aesthetics by the analysis of poetry and music, the two are complementary to each other, which forms the basic framework and analysis mode of this paper.