马克思恩格斯的美学思想

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Aesthetics

马克思恩格斯在美学上的最杰出的贡献,就是他们把美学作为观念形态,放在人类的历史发展长河中加以考察,并且总是同经济发展的一定阶段相联系。马克思恩格斯认为,美属于人类观念形态,美的创造是人类的自由性劳动,同时也是人的本质,美的创造是自由精神的生产活动,总是在特定历史条件下进行的。基于上述思想,从人的自由性这一点出发,进而提出了著名的美的创造的三个阶段理论。

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels＇ s outstanding contribution to aesthetics is that they studied beauty as an ideological form in the human history and ascribed it to certain stages of economic development. They believed that beauty as an ideological form was created via free labor and as the human essence was the outcome of the productive activities of free spirit. In a word,beauty is created under certain historical conditions. And hence they advanced their three-stage theory of the creation of beauty.