On Cai Yuanpei's "aesthetic And Religious Thinking

Cai Yuanpei, an educator, politician, theorist, practitioner, who can not be avoided in twentieth century. After sorting out Cai's work and the future generations'research, I discovered that "Aesthetic Education of religion" is an important part of Cai's thinking. Cai Yuanpei advocated for aesthetic education in a very long time in the whole country, involving every aspect.Firstly, from the basic concept of the "Aesthetic Education of religion", I want to research the "Aesthetic Education of religion" shape in Cai's eyes, and trace its root. It had an important relationship with the study in Germany, during the time, he accepted aesthetics of Kant, Schiller and others. Cai Yuanpei agreed with Kant's aesthetics in the interest-free, universal, at the same time, he does not agree with Kant's religion. Cai's religion was closer to Schiller, they thought that religion is secular in nature.Cai's "Aesthetic Education of religion" must have a specific time factor. To be aimed at Christianity, and "Confucianism", although the concept itself is contradictory, if we put it on the given social environment, understand the contradiction of the concept, then the contradiction would be settled.Meanwhile, Cai defined science as a boundary between aesthetic and religion.The advanced thought of science is an important reason for Cai Yuanpei putting forward the "Aesthetic Education of religion", and leading to a widespread impact.There are countless followers, Lin Fengmian is one of them.They contacted closly and worked together to create the China Academy of Art. Lin Fengmian is deeply influenced by Cai's thought. Lin Fengmian deepened the concept of "Aesthetic Education of religion" by an artistic point of view, and then raised "Art of religion".