论当代美育的使命——读马克思《1844年经济学哲学手稿》的启示

On the Mission of Contemporary Aesthetic Education——Inspiration in Reading Economic and Philosophical Manuscript of 1844 Written by Karl Mark

美育的重要性是由人的审美本质所决定,并借由人类本质的要求和人类本质发展的需求加以说明。美育就是揭示人类活动的审美本质、提高人类感知活动在对象上表现出来的本质力量的感知力,使人类能比较自如的保持和谐以辽阔自身。这种和谐既包括自己内在的和谐,也包括自己与外界的和谐。由于人类对美的规律的认识有一个过程,因此,美育的内涵也具有时代性。在当代,人们所面临的新情况是对心灵的把握与调控的问题、智能潜力开发问题等。所以,美育亟待解决的不仅是心理感性的实现问题,还需解决人们心智的潜能开发与创新问题。

The importance of aesthetic education relies on the aesthetic nature of human beings,and can be explained as the essential requirements of human nature and the basic needs of human evolution.Aesthetic education aims at revealing the aesthetic essence of human activities,improving the essential power of perception exhibited while perceiving a specific object,as a result,human beings can maintain harmony and expand themselves with facility.This kind of harmony involves not only the internal harmony of oneself,but also the harmony between oneself and the external world.For human beings,owing to the fact that understanding the laws of beauty is a gradual process,the connotation of aesthetic education possess epochal characteristics.In the contemporary era,people are facing new problems such as control and adjustment of the mind,and the exploitation of intelligence potential.Therefore,aesthetic education involves not only the realization of psychological perception,but also the development of human’s intelligence potential and innovation.