中国生态美学的最新进展及其与生生美学的关系

The Latest Advances of Ecological Aesthetics in China and its Relationship with Aesthetics of Creating Life

曾繁仁先生是著名美学家,当代中国生态美学的奠基人之一,山东大学终身教授。他从1964年执教至今,其治学历程已走过了55个年头。1981年,曾繁仁教授即开始了审美教育理论与实践的探索,对审美教育的性质、作用、地位与内涵等作出了明确界定,提出“培养生活的艺术家”的美育宗旨,有力推动了当代美育体系的建构。1982年,曾繁仁教授开设西方美学课程,致力于西方美学研究,先后出版多部专著,在古希腊美学、德国古典美学特别是康德美学研究等方面取得了突出成绩。在21世纪之初,曾繁仁教授又转向生态美学研究,自觉以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导,构建旨在寻求人类美好生存的生态存在论美学。曾繁仁教授不断关注现实、回望历史、继承传统,在2017年底又开始关注“生生美学”,不断发表文章将之深化,尝试建构具有中国特色的美学话语体系。

Ecological aesthetics is the transformation of aesthetics as a discipline in the era of constructing ecological civilization.So,it has a very close connection with ecological civilization.Borrowed some ideas from the constructive post-modernism proposed by American scholar David Ray Griffin,we propose that ecological aesthetics is a reflective constructive post-modernism aesthetics with its aim of transcending modern industrial civilization.Li Zehou’s criticism of ecological aesthetics as"aesthetics without man"is based on his treatment of ecological aesthetics as natural aesthetics proposed by Cai Yi and neglected the transformation from epistemology to ecological existentialism.The aesthetics of creating life is the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese aesthetic spirit and can be viewed as the traditional ecological aesthetics in ancient China.