A Discussion About The Relationship Between Aesthetic Education And Religion

CaiYuanpei’s proposition of“Replacing Religion With Aesthetic Education”is the most famous discussion on the relationship between Aesthetic Education and Religion.The understanding of the relationship between Aesthetic Education and Religion can not limited on history based on the situation of development and prosperity of today’s culture.We should stand in the angle of the development of modern culture to conducting a comprehensive study of them.What are Aesthetic Education and Religion?What is the relationship of them?What is the value and significance when they have a development in modern culture.These problems can’t avoid when we study the relationship between Aesthetic Education and Religion.Aesthetic Education and Religion are the products of human spiritual,and they are the believes which people seeking from the spirit. Spirit faith is another world that human’s heart can placed. And the spirit faith in our country was the spirit of the ethics of Confucianism.This is a comprehensive philosophy which has Chinese characteristics.It was a patriarchal and ethical culture forms which was formed by Chinese special and historical environment.Aesthetic education and religion are part of human spiritual culture.Spiritual culture is the soul of the development of human culture.It also is the power of the development of human beings.So,we should have cultural consciousness in the study of aesthetic education and religion.And standing in the human culture which has a long history to study the relationship and distinguish between them.From the angle of human spirit culture to study the problem of Aesthetic Education and Religious can help us understand the relationship between them more deeply.Meanwhile,it also help to remedy the lack of humanistic spirit in the process of our modernization drive.