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The boundaries of beauty in Pre-Qin Confucian aesthetics |
ZHANG Qian() |
School of Art and Design, Wuhan Technology University, Wuhan 430070, China |
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Abstract “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.
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Keywords
beauty
Pre-Qin Confucian aesthetics
boundary
feeling
wen
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Corresponding Author(s):
ZHANG Qian,Email:zhangqiant@msn.com
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Issue Date: 05 March 2009
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