Zhuang Zi's Aesthetic Free Thought And Its Contemporary Value

Today,with the common development of the five major civilizations,the human spiritual world is gradually showing a state of emptiness.Many people regard life itself as a means to pursue secondary fame and wealth,which makes life lose its true happiness.Based on Zhuangzi himself and his works,this paper discusses Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought from the following four aspects: the overview and background of Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought,the aesthetic connotation of Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought,the practical process and internal contradictions of Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought,and the contemporary value of Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought,so as to study Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought,promote human spiritual freedom to the aesthetic level,and promote the perfection of contemporary human personality.First of all,through Zhuangzi's aesthetics,namely philosophy,freedom is the essence of aesthetics,and aesthetics points to human's spiritual freedom,this paper summarizes what Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom is,which lays the groundwork for the full text.In the process of human civilization,under the social background of alienation of foreign things to human beings,deprivation of human's free will by virtue and propriety,and fear of death by human beings in difficult living conditions,Zhuangzi started his pursuit of freedom and beauty.Secondly,it discusses the aesthetic connotation of Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought,which is mainly embodied in three major fields-natural field,artistic field and life field.Starting from these three major fields,it reveals its profound philosophical and aesthetic charm.Thirdly,Zhuangzi's thought of aesthetic freedom is a criticism and resistance to the real life and an eternal pursuit of the ideal world.Therefore,the realization of aesthetic freedom must be from the realm of waiting to the realm of no waiting,from the usefulness of things to useless use,from the beauty of etiquette and music to the beauty of the world,in order to show the path of realizing its freedom.However,Zhuangzi's thought of aesthetic freedom has inherent contradictions due to its realistic resistance.It emphasizes nature over humanity,spirit over reality,and individual over society,which makes Zhuangzi realize aesthetic freedom only through absolute freedom of spirit.Finally,combined with the above chapters,the contemporary value of Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought is summarized.Based on the contemporary society,this paper puts forward the aesthetic value of aesthetic freedom thought in the aspects of nature,artistic beauty creation and personal personality,that is,it is conducive to the construction of modern ecological civilization,provides aesthetic artistic creation methods and promotes the perfection of human personality.The whole article takes this as the writing sequence,and combines the methods of text research and dialectical analysis to make a relatively detailed exposition of Zhuangzi's aesthetic freedom thought,highlighting the importance of his aesthetic freedom and highlighting the important position of Zhuangzi's aesthetics in Chinese classical aesthetics.