自然美论

On the Beauty of Nature

自然美是在人类社会实践基础上形成的主客体对立统一的理想关系在自然领域中的感性显现 ,是理想化的自然形式。它的感性形式作为具有象征性、符号性的理想形式 ,特别鲜明突出 ,而其社会历史文化内涵却比较潜在、宽泛和朦胧。未经劳动实践改造过的自然物所以具有美的属性 ,仍然与以理想为核心的主体本质力量对象化的社会实践活动有关 ,这种实践活动主要表现为认识性实践活动和选择性实践活动。而且 ,这些实践活动都合于人类社会现实生活的理想要求 ,合于形式美的基本法则。

The beauty of nature is the perceptual expression of ideal relations of unity of subject and object in the natual world.The relations of unity of opposites are based on the social practice of human beings.As a kind of symbolic ideal form,the perceptual form of the beauty of nature is distinct.However,its social,historial and cultural connotation is obscure.In fact,raw nature possesses beauty because it is associated with social practice,which is objectification of human essential power whose core is ideal.These practical activeties can be divided into practice of cognition and that of selection.And both kinds are in conformity with the ideal demands of real life of human society and the principle of the beauty of form.