现代新儒家美育思想概论

A General Review of the Aesthetic Education Ideas of the Modern Neo-Confucians

现代新儒家是20世纪中国人文社会科学领域中的文化守成主义的学术流派,其文化诗学体现出"返本开新"、"守先待后"的特色。他们在美育方面,提倡以品格为中心的美育理念,主张艺术的感化作用是通过艺术美的形象,陶冶人们的情操,塑造人的完美个性。新儒家的美育理论,对充实与拓殖中国现代美育,乃至于中西美育的融合,都具有重要的价值。

The modern neo-Confucians are an academic school of cultural conservatism in 20th century Chinese liberal social sciences. Its cultural poetics manifests eclectic features like ＂returning to the origin and blazing new trails＂ and ＂clinging to precedents and allowing for innovation＂. In aesthetics education, they embrace aesthetic ideas that emphasize the cultivation of character and hold that art fosters a moral character and forms a perfect personality through artistically created images. The neo-Confucians＇ theories of aesthetic education are of tremendous value in enriching and expanding modern Chinese aesthetic education and integrating it with Western aesthetic education.