正本清源 返朴归真——美学的呼唤

Back to Nature ——Call of Aesthetics

美源于感性,美本于人生,美是人类对理想生活的一种希望、一种憧憬,是人类不断追求的历程,也是人类不懈追求的结果,是人类在追求中发展起来的本质力量的对象化。传统美学偏执于"形上"与"形下"两端,或为追索虚空的所谓美的本体,而忽略了人的生存、人的存在;或执着于对主体与客体作孤立的、静止的、精细的分析,以偏概全。以致翻覆不定,陷入迷惘。正本清源,返朴归真,关注人的生存,致力于感性的完善,还人以美的感觉,发挥美的启"真"导"善"功能,在物欲横流的市场经济社会中,给感性的个体以审美的关怀和美学的指导,引导人们走出个体独立后的孤独和精神世界的空虚,这是时代对美学的呼唤。

Beauty derives from sensibilities, from life itself. Beauty is a kind of human being's hope for an ideal life, a process of human being's constant pursuit, an outcome of human being's persistent pursuit. Traditional aesthetics tends to go to two extremes of 'being totally metaphysical' or of 'being totally non-metaphysical', either of which is inclined to ignore the human existence for the sake of so-called reality of beauty or is inclined to be focused on making separate, immobile and detailed analysis of the relation between main body and subject, and is liable to fall into the trap of being unilateral, which results in getting lost in hesitation and constant changes. This is the our time's call of aesthetics that one should go and look for the very origin of beauty and return to nature, that one should care about human existence and the perfection of sensibilities, giving people feeling of beauty, performing beauty's social function of 'eliciting honesty and kindness' from human being, and that beauty should, in a world of material, give any sensible individual aesthetic care and guidance, leading them out of loneliness and spiritual emptiness after their getting individual independence.