美育何以可能——论艺术与审美作为人的存在方式

How Is Aesthetic Education Possible?

艺术是人类创造世界过程中形成的一种观察世界、体认世界的重要方式。艺术与存在的真理联系在一起,艺术的使命就是使生命得以显现。美乃是生命的敞亮,美学乃是一种将人之存在纳入形式表达的方法,审美的本质在于让人的存在变得更加美好。从根本上说,审美只有在人生论的意义上才能得以实现。这也就意味着唯有通过审美的教育,人们才能真正获得对人生的深层把握,而美育的意义也就在于提供了一个审美存在的场所。

Art is an important approach developed to observe and understand the world in the process of human creation. Art is closely associated with the truths of existence, and the mission of art is to manifest life. Beauty is the light of life and aesthetics is a method to interpret the forms of human existence. The nature of aesthetics is to make human existence better. Basically, aesthetics only can be brought into full play when the significance of life is concerned. Therefore, it is aesthetic education that can really help people have a deep understanding of life, while aesthetic education can provide an important channel.