On Mencius' Aesthetic Theory of Human Character
Abstract
Mencius aesthetic features, that he inherited before Confucius and Confucius to "goodness-in-one" as the characteristics and tendencies of the Confucian aesthetics, and in its human nature is good, based on the "goodness-in-one" This proposition reflects a profound the sake of being in the main character. In this paper, respectively, from the moral emotions, moral reasoning and moral will of the three areas, see Mencius, human nature is good and what actually provides the theoretical basis, the "good" and "beauty" to above the sake of unity in the personality; then "desirability of that good, have all been of that letter, full of that beauty," as the central passage, Mencius, human nature is good in theory of thinking under the clear implication of which, in order to be able to explore one idea Mencius goodness The Katsuyoshi. A special characteristic of Mencius' aesthetic theory is that he carried on the Confucian tradition of "the union of the beautiful and good". He also made this theory the embodiment of. His most basic notion that "human nature is essentially good. " This article would like to lay as a basis three aspects of moral emotion, moral reasoning and moral will, in looking at Mencius' theory of the goodness of human nature. These findings culminate in" the good "and" the beautiful "in a person. I would also like to examine Mencius'" A man who commands our liking is called a good man, he whose goodness is part of himself is what is called a real man, and he whose goodness brims over is called a beautiful man ", as the crux of this article. From his consideration of man's essence as good, we can bring light to the profundity of his meditations on the synthesis of the beautiful and good