Aesthetics And Revolution

Aesthetics and revolution do not exist in a haphazard way. As understanding human and society deeper and deeper, enlightenment philosophy inaugurated two directions:changing the human society of which extreme form is revolution, understanding person oneself and one's own understanding, aesthetic arises at the historic moment. Therefore, aesthetics and revolution is the inevitable outcome of the history. Aesthetics is the elevation and maintenance of human dignity, revolution shows the courage and determination of improving social life. Aesthetic activities are, in essence, GIVE value to fact, leaped from BE to SHOULD BE. It is also the logic idea of revolution. Revolution relies on aesthetics and ponders castrating aesthetics; revolution attempts to put a curb on aesthetic while often be controlled by aesthetics. Aesthetics support revolution, at the same time, it also involuntarily questioned even against the revolution. At the peak of the enlightenment, Faust contained the praises and suspicions about evolutionary thought (changing the world) of Goethe. He asked in the process of revolution, how could the revolutionists assure that they would not be the'alienation' of themselves by the revolution? At the crossroad of freedom and happiness, aesthetics choose the former and revolution chose the latter. Revolution attempts to destroy the positions emotional which aesthetics stick to. Revolution claimed its inherent'representative'and a judge's qualifications which questioned by aesthetics. The human soul only belongs to dream and emotion. Revolution could change nothing in the soul.