Hou Aesthetic Thought

Li Ze-hou is regarded as the most distinguished aesthetician. he is the founder and representative figure of "practical aesthetics". Aesthetic education is his important aspect in the whole academic thoughts, which improved gradually based on the transformation of his three academic thoughts.It is his first time to introduce "category of practice" into the field of aesthetic research, embodied in the aesthetic field, and re-established the status and value of aesthetic education in academic; Put forward the aesthetic thought of cultivating people's aesthetic feeling about art by talking about the conceptions of "aesthetic feeling", Creative interpretation "empathy style" and "beauty is life". However, the "practical philosophy" emphasizes on the groups and whole greatly. Therefore, the idea of this period embodied in the aesthetic aspects is a lack of individual attention.The second change is based on "practical philosophy", he has turned Kantian subjectivity thought into his practical philosophy of the subject and aesthetical system reasonably. Thus, the human subjectivity has been emphasized, it has changed the integral tendency of emphasis on the importance of early practical philosophy. In the field of aesthetic ideology, he has proposed a goal of "establish new sensibility", emphasizing on infiltrating the sensible cultivation into sense, in order to achieve the integration of sense and sensibility.The third change is based on "return to Confucianism," he proposed the sign of "emotional ontology ". This concept showed the persistence of Li Ze-hou to "subject practice philosophy", combining his innovative understanding to Chinese traditional thought. According to Chinese tradition of lacking religious belief, he has explained "aesthetic education replaces religions" creatively; this turning can be thought of educational turning. Therefore, aesthetic education has become the field of his best hope, and it has also become an important means of avoiding survival predicament for modern people.We have realized that Li Ze-hou's aesthetic ideology is developed gradually by the longitudinal investigation. On the point of view of system, Li Ze-hou has made broad and narrow definition to aesthetic education, that is to say, the definition is made on the metaphysical and physical aesthetic education, which formed the understanding of aesthetic education by the philosophy thought of "establish new sensibility", "culture-psychological structure", meanwhile, making the difference between artistic education and aesthetical education. Aesthetic education is divided into "pleased hearing and sight," "pleased feeling and intention", "good ideal and thought", which plays a significance in guiding value for the implementation of aesthetic education.In a word, his aesthetic theory has always followed the viewpoint of practice, respecting the human existence, concerning about the state of human existence. Not only has his aesthetic theory profound theoretical value, but also it involved in the practical problems of aesthetic education and life, aesthetic education and education. This is a valuable resource for current aesthetic education...