“齐”生死与“化”生死——从生死问题看庄子与葛洪的审美立场与意蕴

Equating or Changing Life and Death——The Aesthetic Position and Meaning of Zhuangzi and Gehong from the Problem of Life and Death

"齐"生死与"化"生死分别是道家庄子与道教葛洪对待生死问题的重要分歧之一,"齐"生死遵循"道法自然","化"生死引导人走向长生,它们不同却又相承。"齐"与"化"二字,在生死观念不同的背后,还引出了它们审美立场的差异与审美意蕴的不同。从这差异之中,可以看出道教美学作为一门宗教美学的一些特点来。

The ideas of equating life and death or changing life and death are the important difference between Taoist Zhuangzi and Taoist Gehong with regard to the problem of life and death. By equating life and death, it means to follow the natural law, but the idea of changing life and death lead people to eternal life. The two words “equate” and “change” differ not only in the idea of life and death, but also in the difference about aesthetic position and aesthetic meaning. Although they are different, the former imposes influence on the latter. From their distinction, we can understand some traits of the Taoist aesthetics as a subject of religious aesthetics.