Call For Beauty Made By Virtue-Francis Hutcheson's Aesthetics In His Ethical System

Fusion of aesthetics and morality is not the sum of these two parts.Real ethics and true literature is not only manger their own territories,but to seek the channel towards each other.Fusion of aesthetics and morality in the suit way,you can explore the aesthetics vision,you can see the arts not only show us the beautiful side,but also give us the power of virtual.Once morality combines aesthetics,moral thinking will fill with artistic taste and art appreciation.Fusion aesthetic activity and moral behavior is closely related to people's life,it can give us a better life.The former one reflects the perception and appreciation of people in different levels,such as on the nature,society and art.The latter one reflects the social relationship between people and society,human,order processing and coordination.Fusion of aesthetics and morality,first of all,is aim to give the aesthetics and morality as historical reflection,because the premise of ethical construction means give aesthetics and morality a communication,then let the art contains moral and let the moral to art.However,the academic circles on the “aesthetic” and “morality” thinking is separated from each other,so that “aesthetic” and “virtue” perform their own duties,and there is no resonance between these two parts.This way of separation is very easy to make the virtue without the aesthetic support and toward the boring rhetoric;and the same time,aesthetic is also easy to produce the lack of ethics.Francis Hutcheson,who is the representative character of the Scotland Enlightenment School,mentions “the sense of beauty”and “moral sense” in his paper.In his point,“the sense of beauty” are the ability of people to perceive the beauty of the concept,this sense is the perception of harmony or consistency.Once the object of the beauty through the perception of the sense of beauty,will make people happy;“moral senses” is the ability of people to perceive themselves or others to distinguish between good and evil,it is completely different from “interest” or “self-love”.That means this two senses have a close relationship: humanbeings have a preference for consistency or regularity because of “the sense of beauty”;“moral norms” form a preference for harmonious norms of moral or social order.However,people living in different places under the guidance of “education” or customs will produce a combination of ideas.Actually,additional ideas will give people a prejudice attitude against beauty or virtue.Unless people can continue to self-reflection,produce separation in strong combination of ideas and objects,or this bias will directly bring the concept of confusion.This is why the sense of beauty and moral senses can respect the things with the characteristic of order and consistency,but cannot connect the beauty and virtue in people's minds.So,Hutcheson says that the elimination of education bias should be based on splitting between the concept and the object of the union,weaken the concept of the object with the inherent description or specific meaning.To this end,Hutcheson gives the answer,he believes that “benevolence”can let the“aesthetic” and “morality” ability to fusion,so that artistic form and moral behavior will integrate with each other.In short,the study of Francis Hutcheson's aesthetics in his ethical,with both theoretical and practical significance.From the theoretical point of view: Hutcheson's aesthetic system promotes “aesthetic” from the external perception to enhance the inner consciousness.This ascension provides the support for the emotional roots of the moral senses,and finds the source for the virtues of benevolence,selflessness and altruism.His ideological system not only attention by scholars of the same period,and gives Hume,Kant and other famous philosophers a greater impact.From the practical point of view: the separation of aesthetics and morality makes the artistic form still remain in the perception of the external senses,it is hard to wake up the real “beauty”perception.And morals in the ethics of the norms,biased towards the kidnapping of morality.It is difficult to cause people to have a real respect for moral behavior.Through the study of Hutcheson's aesthetic and moral problems,it can guide the fusion of contemporary art into the power of virtue,so as to give the artistic creation a true mission and value.At the same time,it can guide the process of moral education in the dissemination of virtue,with the form of art to give moral education to the inner appeal and external performance.