Empirical Naturalism and Ecological Aesthetic Education: Realizability and Transcendality of Ecological Aesthetic Education

The Objective Purposiveness of Nature,by Immanuel Kant,actually has provided a precondition for Ecological Aesthetic Education.And John Dewey's Aesthetics is a practical transformation of the sub-propositions by Immanuel Kant.Nature first is transformed or integrated into experiential category,then is converted into art by using the ratiocination of Art as Experience,and finally is assigned to art.Thus artistic beauty has been the direct representation of nature.And as evidence of that,we can conclude Art as Nature.On the other hand,life,society and history are turned into nature or natural history in the experiential sense.Thus those propositions such as Art as Life,Art as Society and Art as History are true.Art has been not only the essential point and the anchor point of human life,but also the core characterization of nature,life,society and history.Thus,in John Dewey's sense,art aesthetic education is not only the response to Western traditional art aesthetic education but also the integrated generalization on modern or post-modern aesthetic education.Certainly,it is also a thought of Ecological Aesthetic Education which has a broad extension of coverage.