《老子》美学思想的三个本原要素

Three Elements of Aesthetics of Laozi

《老子》一书提出命名问题,命名问题就是一种名实配称关系。在名实配称关系中,名为自身真实性立法。在一种非配称的语境中,相对于名,象的审美意义被提出,《老子》美学堪称一种“观象”的美学。“为道”的美学为名与象的结构性错位提供一种比肩栖居的和谐园地,从此全新的本原要素检视《老子》美学,《老子》美学思想实质上可以归结为一种对个体自由规定的理性追寻。

Laozi advanced a naming problem, which indicates a matching relation between name and truth. In the matching relation between name and truth, name sets up code for the facticity of itself. When there is not a matching relation between name and truth, the aesthefic meaning of the image is raised. The aesthetics of Laozi can be named an aesthetics of view-image. The aesthetics of Dao offers a field in which name and image in strutural malposition coexist harmoniousy. For this point, the aesthetics of Laozi can be come down to a rational search for individual freedom.