儒家生活美学之“本真”生存论

The Existential Theory of"Authenticity"in Confucian Aesthetics of Life

儒家美学指向生活、贴近生活、主张“人”应该“本真”生存。就其审美旨趣看,儒家生活美学“重人”“贵人”“尚仁”“乐仁”,以“仁”为美,力图解决好“人”的生活方式,以优化“人”的生活,构建雍容圆润、和谐融洽的诗意化生活审美域。将本真化生活方式作为最高审美之维,重生、乐生、悦生、仁生,保持“人”与社会、自然间的和谐关系,以保障和还原自由任运的生活状态,仁爱生生,于“人”与社会、“人”与自然和谐相处中感悟生活与审美活动。儒家“以和为美”,就是以“天人合一”为基本内容的本真化、诗意化生活态度。儒家生活美学这种指向生活、美化生活的特点在“颜子之乐”“曾点之乐”“孔颜乐处”“曾点气象”为核心的“生活审美意趣”中体现得尤为充分。

Confucian aesthetics points to life,close to life,and advocates that"man"should live in"authenticity(Benzhen)".According to its aesthetic purport,Confucian aesthetics of life emphasizes and honors Human Beings,respects and promotes"Benevolence"and enjoys it.It also takes Benevolence as the beauty and strives to solve the problems of Human Beings’lifestyle to establish an aesthetic field of natural and harmonious poetic life.An authentic lifestyle,as the highest aesthetic dimension,emphasizes life and takes it as the happiness.It always keeps the harmony between human beings and the society and nature to go back a free condition of life.The principle of Confucian"taking harmony as beauty"is an authentic and poetic lifestyle with the basic contents of"man is an integral part of nature".These characteristics of Confucian aesthetics of life are fully embodied on the allusions of"the joys of Yan Hui""the joys of Zeng Dian""the joys of Kong Zi and Yan Hui"etc.