美的发生与人类审美活动发生的心理基础

Happening of Beauty and Psychological Basis of Human Beings' Aesthetic Activity

美的发生与人类审美活动的发生是两个完全不同的命题。美的发生与人类无关,它来自一种超自然的力。人类审美活动则是人类文明高度发展的产物,它必须具有一定的心理基础。而心理基础的形成,必须经历以下重要阶段:一是由感性能力向联想和想象能力的发展,二是由群体情感向个体情感的过渡。

The happening of beauty and the happening of human beings’ aesthetic activity are two vastly different propositions. The happening of beauty has nothing to do with human beings. It is derived from a supernatural force. The human being’s aesthetic activity is the product from the highly developed civilization. It must have some psychological basis. The formulation of the psychological basis will have to experience the following stages: 1) the development from sensibility to associative power and imaginative power; 2) the transition from collective affect to individual affection.