Pleasure Can be Nurtured by Self-Cultivation without Recourse to Beauty of All the Things of Creation" --A New Exploration of Master Xun's Self-Cultivation Aesthetics

Master Xun says, Pleasure can be nurtured by self-cultivation without recourse to beauty of the ten thousand things of This may be taken as a thesis that has ever been made in terms of moral self-cultivation for the first time in history, revealing the view in broad Outline that the true reason for Objeciless aesthetics consists in the spiritual selfcultivation of the subject. It is just this spiritual self-cultivation which gives rise to the intrinsic Plane for spiritual aesthetics. This spiritual plane is totally of a personal, particular and subjective one, not of a universal, extrinsic and objective one. But, being a type of aesthetic experience, this kind of plane is characteristic of universality. The same is true of the Confucianist, the Taoist or the Buddhistic, self-cultivation, that is, all of these schools of thought are invariably imbued with beauty of this intrinsically spiritual creation.