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Confucius' Ideals of Life and Its Aesthetic Meaning

Zhao Yu-min

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The gentle personality,optimistic attitude towards life and realm of life that Confucius expected,as a cultural factor,have important impact on Chinese literature and literary thinking.This effect not only showed some views itself had contained at literature,even showed he set up one kind of permanent measure of value for the life of later scholars,and the measure of value influenced on Chinese literaturetaste taste and style through the personality spirit of writers again,became the most important art literary spirit.

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The gentle personality,optimistic attitude towards life and realm of life that Confucius expected,as a cultural factor,have important impact on Chinese literature and literary thinking.This effect not only showed some views itself had contained at literature,even showed he set up one kind of permanent measure of value for the life of later scholars,and the measure of value influenced on Chinese literaturetaste taste and style through the personality spirit of writers again,became the most important art literary spirit.

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The gentle personality,optimistic attitude towards life and realm of life that Confucius expected,as a cultural factor,have important impact on Chinese literature and literary thinking.This effect not only showed some views itself had contained at literature,even showed he set up one kind of permanent measure of value for the life of later scholars,and the measure of value influenced on Chinese literaturetaste taste and style through the personality spirit of writers again,became the most important art literary spirit.

Key concepts: Taste, Realm, Meaning (existential), Personality, Aesthetics, Value (mathematics), Style (visual arts), Meaning of life

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