The Confucian Face Of Li Zehou's Aesthetic Thought

As a esthetician who spanned the centuries in our country,Li Zehou has made considerable achievements in the fields of philosophy,aesthetics,and intellectual history,and he has constructed a complete ideological system.Li Zehou's aesthetic thought,as one of the important dimensions,has been influenced by Confucian tradition and western philosophy since modern times,so it shows the light of philosophy.Confucianism,as an important theoretical source of Li Zehou's aesthetic thought,its status and function have not been thoroughly discussed.In order to fully and profoundly reveal the Confucian face of Li Zehou's aesthetic thoughts,this article is based on his anthropological historical ontology philosophy to demonstrate the inheritance and development of his aesthetic thoughts on the Confucian tradition from three aspects.First,starting from the theoretical origin of Li Zehou's philosophical aesthetics,this paper demonstrates the connection and integration between Confucianism,Marxist philosophy and Kant's subjective philosophy.It is pointed out that Li Zehou used the framework of Kant's subjectivity philosophy in the process of constructing his ideological system,and took Marx's historical materialism as the theoretical basis.While accepting the two theories,he always grasped the ideological core of Confucianism.Secondly,starting from the ontology of "degree" and "emotion",this paper explores Li Zehou's inheritance and transformation of Confucianism in the process of forming the two ontology of "degree" and "emotion".It is believed that the noumenon of "degree" is the beginning of "the truth is enlightened by the beauty",and the noumenon of "emotion" is the final completion of the "the life is established by the beauty".Thirdly,focusing on the modern transformation of Confucianism,it is believed that Li Zehou's aesthetic thoughts have played an important role in the modern transformation of Confucianism,which reflects Li Zehou's dominant return to Confucianism.In a word,Confucianism has always been in the development process of Li Zehou's aesthetic thought in the form of implicit or explicit theory,and his aesthetic thought has always had the face of Confucianism.