Plato put forward three definitions of beauty in Epiphany, namely "beauty is useful", "beauty is beneficial" and "beauty is the result of vision and hearing", thus putting forward the view of "utility" of beauty. In The Great Hippocrates, Plato raised the question "What is beauty" through the unique dialogue between Socrates and the sophist Hippocrates. In the dialogue, he distinguished between "beauty itself" (that is, "what is beauty") and "beautiful things" (that is, "what is beauty"). When people (including Hippias) answer the question "What is beauty", they just list beautiful things, such as "Miss Beauty", "Maroon Beauty", "Harp Beauty" and "Soup Pot Beauty", but not "Beauty itself". In his view, beauty is not something beautiful, not a substance or form that makes things look beautiful, not a material or spiritual satisfaction, not an appropriate, useful and beneficial value, not caused by vision or hearing. However, it has not been done, and the conclusion about "beauty itself" is not satisfactory. Finally, he had to declare "beauty is difficult".
Question 2: What is the essence of beauty? Beauty is a vassal of ethics.
Beauty is not an empty concept, but it is not a concrete thing. Although beauty is expressed through people, things and things, people, things and things are not beauty itself. Everything in the world is just a beautiful photo, which is what we usually call an aesthetic object. Beauty appears in front of people through photos. Therefore, people, things, things, that is, concrete and objective things that our senses can feel, are only appendages or carriers of beauty, not beauty itself. For example, when we say that plum blossoms are beautiful, we don't mean that beauty is plum blossoms. Similarly, when we say that helping others is beautiful, the moon is beautiful and a painting is beautiful, we don't mean that beauty is helping others. Beauty is the moon and beauty is a painting. Plum blossoms, helping others, or a painting are just things that attract people's favor. Furthermore, these things all contain and carry beautiful information, and they are all beautiful carriers or beautiful photos. We see beauty in these things, which arouses our goodwill and makes us feel happy and happy. Therefore, we call these aestheticians Aristotle, Da Vinci and Cai Yi. They describe aesthetic objects as beautiful as photos and confuse aesthetic objects with beauty. Why do these aestheticians make such simple mistakes? Mainly because beauty can only be embodied through aesthetic objects. Without aesthetic object, there is no beauty. Aesthetic object is not only the carrier of beauty, but also an integral part of beauty, and it is the only sensible element that beauty presents to people. So many aestheticians can't distinguish beauty from aesthetic object, so it's not surprising that aesthetic object is regarded as beauty.
Generally speaking, what is beauty is unclear only by logical reasoning from concept to concept. To explain what beauty is, we need to analyze examples of beauty and test them with practice. Because practice is the only criterion for testing truth.
Things with beautiful information are aesthetic objects.
Question 3: What is the definition of the essence of beauty? The pleasant reaction when people's needs are met is the reaction to aesthetic feeling.
Question 4: What is the essence of beauty? The essence of beauty is kindness, integrity, helpfulness and a generous and selfless heart!
Question 5: The new aesthetic principle: What is the essence of beauty? In all cognitive fields, all concepts are generated around people. To correctly answer the essence of beauty, we first need to understand the essence of human beings. Otherwise, it is passive water.
I try to interpret the origin and essence of beauty from the perspective of traditional culture.
As said at the beginning, all concepts originate from people, so what is the essence of people first?
There is a saying in Huangdi Neijing, an ancient medical book in China: those who are rooted in China, those who have the opportunity, those who have the opportunity, will rest in peace; Rooted in the outside, life is called Richie. When Qi stops, it disappears.
This passage means that human life can be divided into two systems. The first system is the invisible "God", which is the origin of human thinking, that is, the root of human thinking. The other part is the human body formed by the yin-yang and five elements of qi (the ancients called invisible energy substances such as glory, defense and qi, etc.). ), similar to the understanding of "soul+body" in western legends. Obviously, the human mind is the master of the body. If the mind doesn't want to do it, then the body certainly won't act. Therefore, people's essence is the thought they have, having different thoughts is the most essential difference between people, and the difference in appearance is only the appearance.
Well, first of all, we have made it clear that the essence of human beings is thought, that is, the "God" in Huangdi Neijing, and the ancients were also called "Yuan God". Then, various civilization systems appeared in human civilization, which shaped different human groups and eventually formed different nations and even countries. Among them, only China's traditional culture has never been interrupted.
Different civilization systems are essentially cultivating people's thoughts, which is what is said in Huangdi Neijing: saints convey their spirits, worship heaven and communicate with gods. That is to say, from ancient times to the present, saints have spread ideas that are in line with the development of human nature to people, thus giving them spiritual strength and conserving human thoughts.
From this perspective, there must be different aesthetic systems in different civilization systems, because beauty comes from human thoughts, and human thoughts are shaped by different civilization systems.
Therefore, the root of beauty is the ideas contained in different civilizations.
The essence of beauty is the distinction between likes and dislikes created by people according to the ideological characteristics shaped by their respective civilization systems.
And this kind of likes and dislikes are divided into two categories. One is spirit; One is external sensory experience.
As we know, China's traditional Chinese painting is an aesthetic art developed on the basis of traditional culture, emphasizing a kind of beauty beyond human senses and a kind of spiritual beauty, which is one of the manifestations of its unique cultural connotation. Western painting, on the other hand, tends to conform to human sensory cognition and so-called reality. It is an aesthetic art that relies more on people's sensory cognition.
We know that modern scientific research shows that human sensory cognition is very limited. For example, the human eye can only see a very narrow spectral range, which means that there are many substances in the universe and the world that we can't see. . . Ears, nose, etc. They are all the same and have limitations. Then, the so-called objective world of human beings is just a cage of human beings. . . . . .
From this, we can easily find that the connotation of Chinese civilization far exceeds that of western civilization. Not now, of course, but now in China, where traditional culture has been lost for many years. Fortunately, modern people are re-recognizing it.
Well, it's getting farther and farther. . . . . However, these are all a whole. Modern scientific methods of human beings tend to separate the relationship between things and life, and look at the world from the so-called objective perspective. In fact, when people emphasize objectivity, it is also the time when human beings are more and more trapped in the cage of self-cognition. . . . . .
The ancients put forward "the unity of heaven and man" long ago, that is, everything in heaven and earth is closely related. And man is the spirit of all things, how can he have nothing to do with heaven and earth? ! The ancients said that human life is a matter of life. Is it a lie? ! !
Great China, silent sage, just stay now and regain his glory.
On the other hand, this answer is a realistic expression of spiritual aesthetics (*-*).
Question 6: What is the concept of beauty? 1. Beauty is an integral part of concrete things. Without concrete things, beauty cannot exist alone. Beauty exists in specific environments, phenomena, things, behaviors and objects. Beautiful scenery, fine wine, beautiful jade, beautiful things and beautiful life are all concrete things that contain beauty. Zhuangzi pointed out that there is great beauty in heaven and earth without saying anything; Needless to say, the four seasons have clear methods; Needless to say, everything is rational. Damei, Dawu and Dali exist in heaven and earth, four seasons and all things, and are the components of heaven and earth, four seasons and all things. Plato believes that beauty is not a concrete thing of beauty. Beauty is a concept, and it is the concrete thing of beauty that makes it beautiful. Plato's so-called concept refers to the stipulation, expression and composition of concrete things, and refers to abstract things that people distinguish, define, highlight and abstract from individual concrete things through cognitive practice, including two or more opposing components and titles. Beauty is not a concrete thing of beauty, but an abstract thing contained in the concrete thing of beauty. Beauty is the universal expression, universal essence and component of concrete things with all kinds of beauty. Beauty is not the whole of the concrete things of beauty, it is only a part of the concrete things of beauty. 2. Beauty is the utilitarian expression, positive significance and positive value of concrete things to promote the survival and development of society and human beings. Philosophical definition of value: value is a component of concrete things, an interactive nature and ability of concrete things, which is discovered, defined, expressed and abstracted from all concrete things that people experience through cognitive practice. It has certain boundaries, restrictions, regulations and titles, and contains abstract things and meta-ontologies that people can't perceive but can know. Specific things generally have the nature and ability of interaction and interconnection. Natural things, environment and phenomena have the nature and ability to affect human survival and development. Human beings have the nature and ability to transform the natural environment and change objective things, and various chemical substances have the nature and ability to react with each other and fuse to generate new substances. People are used to calling the interaction and interrelated nature and ability of a single concrete thing value. Such as use value, exchange value, labor value, combination value, cultural value and religious value. It is all titles and definitions of people's interactive and interrelated nature and ability to individual concrete things in daily life. Meta-ontology is an integral part of natural things and a universal stipulation of everything experienced by human beings. It is discovered, defined, highlighted and extracted from all experienced things through cognitive practice. It has certain boundaries, restrictions, regulations and appellations, and contains two or more elements of unity of opposites. It exists as both a concrete thing and an abstract thing, and cannot be felt by people, but can only be recognized by people. Value belongs to the same category as time, space, movement, matter and spirit, and does not have the highest level of universality. Value is the unity of opposites between positive value and negative value. As we all know, some specific environments, phenomena, behaviors, things and objects are beneficial to human survival and development, and have positive significance and value for human survival and development. Some specific environments, phenomena, behaviors and things are harmful to society and human survival and development, and have negative significance and value to human survival and development. The significance and value of social and natural environment, phenomena, things and behaviors to social and human survival and development is the unity of positive and negative significance, positive and negative value. Truth, goodness and beauty are the special attributes and abilities of concrete things that are beneficial to society and human survival and development, and are the positive significance and value of concrete things to human survival and development; False, evil and ugly are the special attributes and abilities of concrete things that are harmful to society and human survival and development, and they are the negative significance and value of concrete things to human survival and development. Beauty is a positive value contained in concrete things. Beauty is an integral part of individual concrete things, one of the concrete existence and manifestations of value, a positive value as opposed to negative value, and a relatively abstract thing or meta-entity as opposed to ugliness. The beauty of environment, behavior, language and soul means that the specific environment, behavior, language and soul contain special attributes and abilities that are beneficial to the survival and development of society and people. It means that the specific environment, behavior, language and mind are of positive significance and value to the survival and development of society and the vast majority of people. 3. Beauty is different in individual concrete things ... >>