庄子美学研究指瑕

Flaws on the Aesthetic Studies of Chuang-tzu

百年来的庄子美学研究成绩斐然,但也存在着一些偏颇。偏颇之处突出表现在研究者惯以西方美学观念来涵盖、框架庄子,而所谓"庄子美学"其实主要是一种美学精神,是庄子的言论向美、向艺术生成的巨大可能性;以“本体论”言说庄子则忽视了本体论重视逻辑推演的特征与庄子之"圆"的乖离;庄子所追求的心性的自由畅适与西方张扬个人意志的自由观也存在着很大不同;庄子之书的玄奥特点也使那些欲透彻明晰地研究庄子的做法显得捉襟见肘。

Though the aesthetic studies of Chuang-tzu in the last 100 years had achieved a lot, some warps also existed in the studies. The warps mainly focus on the fact that Chuang- tzu is too often being analyzed in the framework of western aesthetics. However, Chuang-tzu＇s aesthetics is some kind of aesthetic spirit, to a great extent, it is the possibility for Chuang -tzu＇s thoughts to convert into beauty and art. Ontology cant be used to describe Chuang-tzu since the logistic characteristic of ontology is inconsistent with Chuang-tzu＇s “circularity”. Chuang-tzu seeks for the liberty of soul, which differs from westerners＇seeking after the liberty of personal volition. Compared with the “mysterious feature” of Chuang - tzu, the attempts to give a clear explanation to Chuang-tzu only appeared with limited success.