人是审美的存在——重读《庄子》

庄子思想产生于诸侯混战的战国,他关注人的个体生存价值及其意义,不以社会取向衡量生命的价值和意义,如果仅以隐士思想解读庄子,便放大了其逃避现实的一面,忽视了绝大悲悯与批判的另一面。庄子认为社会的破坏力量源于精神上的遮蔽,他称之为“天刑”,这是人类最大的桎梏。然而,人虽然非本质化了,人的本性却是美的,人可以“复其初”,审美生存是人的理想境界。

Human Beings——the Yardstick of Aesthetics

Chuang Tzu's thoughts were formed in the Warring Period.What he concerned was the value and significance of individual existence.He never measured the value and significance of life by social preferences.If Chuang Tzu's thought is interpreted only from the aspect of the hermit,it will leave an impression of strong emphasis on idea of escaping from the reality,but ignores its sympathetic and critical side.Chuang Tzu regarded the mental shade as the destructive forces of society,which he defined as "the punishment from the God".This is the greatest shackles to human beings.