Aesthetics Development: Logics from the Human-orientated Perspective

The development of present-day aesthetics requires that aesthetic activities be interpreted coherently and systematically from a human-orientated perspective. As an image, beauty is generated in the second world with the convergence of the perceptual elements from the first world and the rational elements from the third world. It embodies the perfection of human's existence. The essential structure of beauty ,which is a polyhedron containing three levels and two ranges, is in accordance with human's spiritual structure. Beauties of shape, of science, of morality and of religion etc. present respectively each aspect of beauty. Meanwhile, sublime beauty, weak beauty and ugliness are the variation of essential structure of beauty. Tragic, comedy and the absurd etc. are the integrated forms of beauty. Aesthetic feeling is a spiritual state and progress of aesthetic subject and the balance and compromise between other colliding emotions. By and large, it contains three levels: be pleasant to ears and eyes, to the heart and head, and to the spirit and soul. If taste, standard and idea make up the aesthetic judgement system of subject, then perception, understanding and imagination comprise the aesthetic ability system . The appreciation of beauty can revive the human nature as well as promote the moulding of the perfect human dignity.