儒家思想之于当代中国美学建构的意义

Significance of Confucianism for the Construction of Contemporary Aesthetics in China

儒家内圣外王的思想结构提示当代美学应当是从内圣与外王两个维度展开的行动、切己的美学。对于当代生态美学建构而言,儒家的生态伦理以及由"天人合一"、"参赞天地化育"显示出的透彻智慧,特别是从道德的形上学来规范和引领审美观照的思路极富启示;对于国家美学建构而言,值得汲取的智慧是在"天下"这种新的世界政治制度架构里进行思想布局和美学规划。

Confucian ideological structure of Internal Saints and External Kings suggest that contemporary aesthetics should be active aesthetics developing from the two dimensions of Internal Saints and External Kings. For the establishment of contemporary Ecological Aesthetics, Confucian ecological ethics and incisive wisdom revealed from ＂Harmony Between Man and Nature＂ and from ＂Participation of Man in Creation of Nature＂, and especially its thinking pattern of constraining and guiding aesthetic contemplation by moral metaphysics are of great enlightenment and significance. As far as the construction of National Aesthetics is concerned, Confucian wisdom worth learning consists in laying out thoughts and drawing up aesthetics plans under the political institutional frame of the new world named Tianxia （天下）.