Wang Guowei Thought, Utilitarianism And Kant's Aesthetic

The most important aesthetic thought that Wang Guowei learns from the German, is established by Kant, through Schiller, Schopenhauer, aesthetic and utilitarian to be played independently. The Early Aesthetic of Wang Guowei can be simply summarized as:ultra-utilitarian view of literature and art; the "beautiful" and the "sublime" aesthetic ideas comes from the impact of Kant's ideas; whether the contents contain the whole human philosophy as a measure of the value of high and low art standards. Wang Guowei ultra-utilitarian view of literature and these are reflected in the early essays in aesthetic categories are also reflected in subsequent literary criticism.The difference opinions about literary and art between WangGuowei and the persons whose leader is LiangQichao, the different options for the aesthetic value orientation compared with Lu Xun, the different poetic way compared with ZhangHuiyan, the different perspect of explainling Kant's ultra-utilitarian aesthetic ideas compared with CaiYuanpei,on the one hand,Wang Guowei is affected by the Western ultra-utilitarian aesthetics, on the other hand, traditional Confucian orthodoxy poetry drew the line several possible dimensions for the future generations, Wang Guowei's position is still the Confucian way of Poetry, because it still think the questions of poem in the opposite mode of the moral reason and natural feeling which is set by Confucian Poetry.Retrospective Traditional Poetry, because of Traditional Chinese Confucian Poetic's Thinking way and rationalism position, the dual confrontation mode of moral reason and the natural feeling which is set by Traditional orthodoxy Poetry, so later poetry can only work in such three possibilities as the reasonable desire, Eliminate the desire, or the more reason to love. The Orthodox Confucian Poetry is a kind of rationalism with "extreme" and "moderate" position, thoroughly rebellion orthodoxConfucian rationalist is the heresy Confucian Poetry, which advocates the more reason to love.In other words, wether LiangQichao,LuXun,CaiYuanpei and ZhangHuiyan mainly advocate the Confucian rationalism position? and WangGuowei is the supporter of the heresy Confucian poetics Poetry. So, the difference between WangGuowei and those thinkers can be said the difference between the Confucian tradition Aesthetic Rationalism and rebel against it which supplys Sentiment Aesthetic Ideas. However, the Heretics who rebel against Confucian tradition Aesthetic Rationalism had included the factor of western aesthetic ideas.