劳动使人成为审美的人——兼与汪济生同志商榷

人与动物的区别,最终表现为实践的自由及其生成的人对现实的审美关系,也就是说,是自由自觉的劳动使得人脱离了动物界成为能够审美的人,审美的人越来越离开动物界,成为真正的人——自由全面发展的人。从这个根本点上来看,马克思与恩格斯在人与动物界定问题上的区别不是本质性的。这种区别并不影响实践美学以实践唯物主义为哲学基础所作的美学建构及其体系。

Labor Enables Human Beings to Become Aesthetic——A Discussion with Wang Jisheng

The differences between human beings and animals show ultimately the aesthetic reality relationship between the practical freedom and the human beings that it formulates. That is to say, it is free and conscious labor that enables human beings to be rid of the animal world and elevated to the status of beings who are possessed of aesthetic ability. In turn, the aesthetic human beings gradually depart from animal kingdom and are transformed into true human beings --- beings who can develop freely and overly. From this perspective, the differences between human beings and animals demarcated by Marx and Engels are not essential. This sort of difference does not affect the aesthetic construction and system that the practice aesthetics has accomplished with the practical materialism as the philosophical basis.