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Discussion On Mencius's Aesthetic Realm Of Personality

Posted on:2013-02-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330374456731Subject:Aesthetics
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"Realm" usually refers to the degree or the status of things.lt is a description of the dedgree or status that people acknowledge or practise somethings can reached. In this paper, the realm involves not only the standard of personality beauty, but also relates to how to evaluate it. Mencius's realm refers to commenting on Le Zhengzi's personality, so it is mainly a problem of how to evaluate the beauty of personality. And Mencius's evaluation itself is also a discourse of personality aesthetic. In this paper,making Mencius" theory of good" as the starting point, the realm's development subject to the principle of goodness. Mencius's thought of personality aesthetics has pursed ideal personality. The personality development is consciously to recognite and reduct the goodness.It can be called " beauty". At the same time, Mencius personality aesthetics thought is not only raised the problem of beautiful personality, but also related to how to evlauate personality aesthetics. Aesthetic personality is not only to find goodness from personality,but also from the moral realm of development mode to enjoy the reduction of goodness. From the analysis, we can find that in this model," beauty" is the begainning but not termination. And this development has always been around the goodness. This process is not only to enjoy the objects or find moral identity from objects, but also to examin and evaluate oneself so as to continuously achieve the expectations of one's moral development. In conclusion, aesthetic personality is based on the goodness that the objects present.From it,we can evaluate oneself's moral. Mencius make the research category from the traditional ethical issues to the aesthetics issues. The aesthetic content has the character of specific moral, and aesthetic subject has character of moral consciousness. So the same quality of aesthetic and moral judgment gives us profound enlightenment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Mencius, Realm, Beauty, Personality Aesthetic
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