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"Real" Is "Aesthetic":A New Study on Zhuangzi's Aesthetics

Yan Shuang Wang

Abstract

The word beautiful in Zhuangzi has various meanings,so it can not equal to aesthetic.The word that corresponds to is real.Reality advocated by Zhuangzi is not one in the viewpoint of epistemology,but ontology,that is the presentation of nature.Zhuangzi's aesthetics points towards reality.Zhuangzi's aesthetic experience is an experience towards original life.

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Key concepts: Aesthetics, Ontology, Presentation (obstetrics), Philosophy, Aesthetic experience, Aesthetic theory, Epistemology, Medicine