先秦儒家美学之'美'的边界

摘要

"美"在先秦儒家美学中是一个重要概念.先秦儒家美学对这个概念的界定是从两个大的方面入手的:否定的方法,强调审美意义上的"美"不是"善";肯定的方法,一方面强调美与"情"有关,这种情不是生理快感,另一方面强调"美"是一种特殊的形式,是一种有特定意义的"文".先秦儒家美学之"美"可以界定为能传达情感或引起情感反应的"文".%"Beauty"is a very important concept in Pre-Qin Confucian aesthetics.Pre-Qin Confucian aesthetics generally had two viewpoints when defining beauty:Negatively,by stressing that"beauty"in the aesthetic sense was not"good";and positively,by stressing two factors:one,that beauty was related to "feeling"which was not an animal instinct,the other was that"beauty"was a special texture with a particular meaning."Beauty"in Pre-Qin Confucian aesthetics may be defined as"texture(or form)"capable of communicating feeling or triggering a reaction of feeling.