A Study Of Confucius'Aesthetic Thought

Confucius' ideological has profound connotation,extensive and profound,through one hundred generations and across different region are lifted up.Aesthetics is an important part of Confucius' thought.He has regarded “Ren” as his aesthetic foundation,and at the same time,he has made good works with good beauty,cultivating temperament,feeling the beauty of beauty in subtle influence,and understanding in the aesthetic pleasure Germany,and based on the ceremony,and ultimately under the influence of music to achieve moral personality,to achieve the ideal of the unity of humanity.Represented by Confucius aesthetics of later generations and spirit of the aesthetic model has played an important role in the world,for the study of the Confucius' aesthetic thought in academia,focused on Confucian music aesthetics,ethics,aesthetics,from different aspects,such as character aesthetics but for his benevolence and aesthetics as well as relationship between the transformation of the kernel to beauty is less,lack of the study of Confucius' aesthetic thought core proposition.Based on benevolence and aesthetic relations as the breakthrough point,through the “Yi ‘Ren' wei mei ” and “Taking‘Ren' as beauty” in the kernel,we can know that Confucius' aesthetic is not only a kind of ethical aesthetics,in his aesthetic thoughts have the concerns for people and things,there is inner emotional side,with his “Ren” as the criteria of beauty,but not as a unique aesthetic index,RenHang and kernel of “Ren”,pay attention to the external behavior at the same time also has the pursuit of inner goodness,in which a rational and perceptual confluence,the unity of practice benevolence and LeRen.“Taking ‘Ren' as beauty” at the core of Confucius' aesthetic proposition,is the most exact expression of Confucius' aesthetic thought.Based on the analysis of the connotation of “taking‘Ren' as beauty”,this paper regards “Ren” as the value root of Confucius' aesthetic thought,and explains Confucius' aesthetic thought from three aspects: personality,art and nature.The full text is divided into four parts.The fist part of Confucius' aesthetic thought to do a general outline,from the macro level analysis of its aesthetic thought connotation.Fist of all,the origin of Confucius' aesthetic thought is introduced.The political,economic,ideological and cultural conditions of the pre-Qin era are related to the connotation of the aesthetic thought and become an important source of Confucius' aesthetic thought.Then,Relationship,“The Analects of Confucius” in the seemingly fragmented aesthetic point of view is around the core of the kernel to start.“Taking ‘humanity' as beauty”,which is mainly related to the relationship between humanity and beauty,“Ren” as the core of Confucius' aesthetic thought,from the interpretation of the meaning of humanity,to the interpretation of the relationship between humanity andUnited States.The second,the third and the fourth part focus on the connotation of Confucius' aesthetic thought separately.Confucius' thought of “taking ‘humanity' as beauty” embodied in his theory of personality,artistic beauty and natural beauty.The second part mainly elaborates the embodiment of the thought of “taking ‘Ren' as beauty” in the personality.Confucius' in the eyes of the ideal person is in accordance with certain etiquette norms and patriarchal relations interdependent people,through the ceremony of the norms in real life to achieve the beauty of the personality;its personality is mainly reflected in the Shou Ren and Ren as an aspect,the rites are regarded as an effective way to shape the inner benefactor,and the aesthetic realm of humanity is realized through the fusion of humanity and rites.The third part revolves around the beauty of art.Confucius to link art and kernel,DE,see art as a pro kernel,Le Ren and important way of practice humanity.The beauty of art of the kernel is mainly manifested in the poetry and music,through neutralization,good unified aesthetic standards and elegant aesthetic creation technique gradually achieve the art of benevolence thought connotation and perfect combination of form;The fourth part focuses on the Confucius' s theory of natural beauty,though Confucius' aesthetic thought is still to choose the object of aesthetic value scale,but from Confucius' attitude towards nature,revealed the nature of all things in the life care;The last mainly elaborate “taking ‘Ren' as beauty” aesthetic value.His thoughts still have important significance for today's society,the human today,it is necessary to keep back the history,the ideological core of adsorbing reasonable so as to promote the implementation of modern transformation,which can provide a rich spiritual resources of modernity in China.Therefore,the Confucius' “taking ‘Ren' as beauty” aesthetic thoughts of research still has important practical significance.