“以美育代宗教”:蔡元培审美信仰建构的双重价值追求

"Aesthetic Education Replacing Religion":Dual Aims of Aesthetic Faith Value Constructed by Cai Yuanpei

蔡元培提出"以美育代宗教说"是意图在宗教精神阙如而儒家礼乐法度业已崩解的现代中国文化场域中,以美育为手段实施一种信仰重建方案。美育所含之审美精神的特殊性和现代中国的社会政治语境决定了"以美育代宗教"的信仰建构逻辑包含了某种双重性的价值追求,具体表现在信仰的世俗性与超越性、个体性与社会性这两组二元对立之中,这也反映出现代知识分子在信仰重建过程中复杂的文化现代性心境。

Cai Yuan-pei came up with the theory of ＂Aesthetic Education Replacing Religion＂ in order to carry out a faith reconstruction project in the modern Chinese cultural context where the Li-Yue system of Confucianism had collapsed and also be lack of religious spirit.The specific characteristic of aesthetic spirit in the aesthetic education and the social-political environment of modern China determined the dual value nature in the faith construction logic of theory of ＇Aesthetic Education Replacing Religion＇,which embodied in the following two groups paradox：secularity and transcendence,individuality and sociality.The paradoxical dual nature of faith value reflected the intellectuals＇ mental state caused by cultural modernity in the course of faith reconstruction.