“美是什么”命题辨伪──认知美学初论

An Essay on Cognitive Aesthetics

"美是什么"命题的提出是以客观唯心主义为基础、以美"理念"及"美本身"的存在为思想前提的。因此，该命题一经形成就内在地含有着美是一种实体存在的答案，误导美学研究两千多年。认知美学理论认为：只有破除掉该命题的束缚，代之以"美概念表示什么"命题，才可使美学研究的思路获得解放；审美关系是在一般功利关系基础上转化而成的，其转化的关键因素，是人形成了新型的认知方式，可以对事物形象产生非功利的愉悦感觉。这种感觉被称之为"美"、形容为"美"。因此，美概念本是对主观感觉的表述，不是对任何实体性对象事物的指称，"美是什么"命题不能成立，"美本质"问题也不应存在。

The raising of the question 'what is aesthetics' was based on objective idealism and took the idea of aesthetics and the existence of aesthetics itself as its ideological premises. Therefore, the proposition Inherently has the solution that aesthetics is a substantial existence which misleading the aesthetic studies for 2000 years. The theory of cognitive aesthetics holds the view that aesthetic studies should replace the proposition with ' what the conception of aesthetics expressed', which can liberate the way of thinking in aesthetic studies. The idea of aesthetics can not exist independently, since aesthetics is only an expression of subjective perceptions. There is no such thing as the nature of aesthetics.