审美教育与人性和谐

在工业化时代,人性的不和谐首先表现为人的感性欲望与精神追求的不和谐。工业化及现代科学技术使人内在的时间体验被压缩,人性更多地倾斜到外在感官欲望的满足和享受之中。人类物质消费欲望无止境地增长,造成了人与自然关系的紧张和许多社会的不和谐。审美在人心灵最深处滋养和培育一种对别人生命、对万物生命的同情、怜惜和大爱,它能培养人的生态意识,使人以一种音乐的心境与他人及万物和谐相处。高科技时代,人性的不和谐还表现为理性过分压抑感性,使人成为思想的机器或某种社会意识形态的工具,而审美教育是造就心智和谐的一代新人的最佳途径。

Aesthetic Appreciation Education and Humanity Harmony

The disharmony between perceptual desire and spiritual pursuit of man is the manifestation of humanity harmony in industrial age.Industrialization and modern science and technology result in man's satisfaction with perceptual desire instead of internal experience.The increasing desire of human being for material consumption leads to disharmony between man and nature as well as many other disharmonies of society.Aesthetic appreciation helps develop man's sympathy, pity,tender affection for all things of creation,man's ecological awareness as well as the harmony between man and all things on the earth.Disharmony of human nature has manifestations in high-tech age that rationlity inhabits perceptuality and man becomes ideological machine or a tool of social ideology.Aesthetic appreciation education is the most effective way to develop the new generation with mental harmony.