美育成就人格的可能——蔡元培美育实践探索

Possibility of Aesthetic Education Making a Good Personality——On Cai Yuanpei's Aesthetic Education

近代学人视美育为滋养人格的要途,其境界是"美育可以代宗教"。通过分析蔡元培的美育实践理性、美育对成就人格的影响,演绎近代美育思想的发育、生长和实践过程,意在借鉴美育如何滋养国民心性和人格发展,为建构现代人的精神世界提供有益的借鉴。

Modern scholars believe that aesthetic education is a crucial way to nourish a good personality,which in essence identifies with the viewpoint that ' aesthetic education can replace religion'. Through doing an analysis of Cai Yuanpei's aesthetic practical reason and the influence of aesthetic education on personality,this paper deduces the emergence,development and practice process of modern aesthetic education thought and explains how to nourish the national mind and personality development via aesthetic education,which aims to provide useful reference for the construction of modern people's spiritual world.