The Brief Analysis Of Fang Dongmei’s Aesthetics

Mr. Fang Dong Mei is a famous poet, philosopher and esthetician in the20thcentury. Hebuilt his own philosophy----Life Ontology, based on the thorough understanding of easternand western philosophy. The Life Ontology of Mr. Fang Dong Mei’s can be depicted fromtwo aspects, one is the“noumenon, the other is the phenomenon. The part about thenoumenon includes the nature of universal life noumenon and cosmology. The part aboutthe phenomenon, is that universal life continuously give its power to human and allthings in the universe,and then,human and all things accept the creativity of the universallife which make them ascend continuously,finally human make the ascent of life realm andpersonality actualized as well as create great culture.First，the thesis discusses the position of aesthetics in Fang’s philosophy. Aestheticattitude is the basic attitude that runs through Fang’s philosophic theory and aestheticideology has a great impact on Fang’s philosophic theory. Aesthetic is an indispensable part ofFang’s Life Ontology philosophic ideology.Then, This thesis locates the position of the important aesthetic issues including Beautyand aesthetic judgment, artistic beauty, the beauty of personality, aesthetic life in Fang’s LifeOntology, and then investigates them from noumenon and phenomenon aspects.This thesisunscrambles Mr. Fang Dong Mei’s aesthetic ideology meticulously, analyzes it properlyaround universal life, to unfold the overall perspective of the aesthetic ideology and itsinner logic in Fang’s philosophic theory.Fang’s aesthetic ideology is concentrated around the universal life. Beauty exists inuniversal life as an important transcendental value. In this part, it includes aestheticalmatters about Beauty and aesthetic judgment. The value of Beauty comes true in thecontinuous creation of life, which includes the beauty of art, the beauty of personality, and theaesthetic life. Beauty, truth, kindness and love is inherent unity in Fang Dongmei’s aesthetictheory.This thesis also tries to locate the position of Fang Dongmei’s aesthetics in the history ofmodern Chinese Aesthetics, and make a brief evaluation on the contribution and limitations.The view of Fang Dongmei about essence of beauty is closed to the faction that "beauty is the unity of subjective and objective.Fang Dongmei’s aesthetics is a heritage, renaissanceand new creation about traditional Chinese life aesthetics, and it thus forms a modern lifeaesthetic system. This is Fang Dongmei’s greatest contribution. The biggest limitation of thethought is that the philosophical foundation of his aesthetics---universal life" which is thenoumenon of the universe is a spirit with mysterious nature. Fang Dongmei failed to prove itin a logic way. It not only makes his philosophy system lack of solid foundation, but alsomakes the realization of his aesthetic theory difficult, which makes his aesthetics theory’sdepth can not make big leap, compared with the life aesthetics of previous thinkers’ in ancientChina.