Abstract

Chinese people attach importance to intuition and imagery in ways of thinking that are quite sensible, but the result, i.e. the thoughts that are popularized in virtue of political power, are rather rational. These rational thoughts, which were influenced by Buddhism and continually became introspective, had been growing more irrational factors. Up to the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when the economy was developed, they merged with the growing emphasis on daily needs of food and clothes and the envisagement to the utilitarian circumstances, and finally broke through the threshold of rationalism. Under the attack of Geng Dingxiang, Li Zhi who emphasized these thoughts was forced beyond his previous boundaries and led a whole variation in how he viewed a series of issues including values, humanity, ethics and aesthetics. This indicated a historical change from rationalism to irrationalism in Chinese humanism and aesthetics thoughts. /// 中国人注重直觉、意象的思维方法带有浓厚的非理性色彩，而思维成果，如 借助政治力推行之思想则是理性的。这种理性思想在受佛教思想影响而不断心化的 过程中，非理性因素日趋滋长，至明代中后期，随着经济的发展，与渐重衣食日用 之实和直面功利之势相结合而走向了突破理性的门槛。耿定向的攻评，将强调这种 思想的李费逼出原有地界，从而在价值观、人性论、伦理观、审美观等一系列问题 上形成整体变异。它标志着中国人学思想、美学思想由理性到非理性的一次历史性 异变。.