伽达默尔对柏拉图美学理论的发掘

Gadamer’s Exploration for Plato’s Aesthetic Theory

伽达默尔从柏拉图的审美理论中汲取了诸多建构其哲学诠释学的养料,也再次证明了古希腊哲学思想的魅力。在伽达默尔诠释学思想视域的关照下,柏拉图"美的理式与分有说"表现了"美"因其存在而显现出来的诠释学思想;被苏格拉底称为"模仿的模仿"文艺作品,伽达默尔则认为它并非是真理的影子,而是可以用以把握真理的再认识的媒介;即使是柏拉图最具争议的"审美意识非纯粹化"的理论也影响了伽达默尔美学的基础性思想--"审美无区分";柏拉图的对话形式则是伽达默尔建构其"效果历史意识"的重要来源之一。

Gadamer learned much from Plato’s aesthetic theory to construct his philosophical hermeneutics, which proved the charm of ancient Greek thought once again. From the perspective of Gadamer ’s hermeneutics, Plato’s theory of "Rational Form and Teilhable of Beauty" expresses the hermeneutic thought that "beauty" appears because of its own existence;in Gadamer’s eyes, literary and artistic works, which Socrates called "imitation of imitation" are not the shadow of truth, but the medium of reunderstanding that can be used to grasp the truth;even Plato’s most controversial theory of "non purity of aesthetic consciousness" influenced "aesthetic indistinguishability",the basic thought of Gadamer’s aesthetics;and the way which Plato chose to talk is one of the important sources of Gadamer’s "historical consciousness of effect".