On Meaning and Value of Vico's View of Nature of Beauty
As the founder of aesthetics,Vico opened up the source of practical aesthetics with his research on the separation of human social history from natural history and the connection between knowledge and practice.Based on the theory that all ethnic groups with different origins have a common truth foundation and long-term thinking,Vico endowed with"the harmony of all parts and their whole"with a new connotation and defined the nature of beauty.The view of nature of beauty summarized by Vico in his comprehensive examination of artistic charm was created through"poetic logic"such as imagination,passion analogy,and metaphor in the Venus statue.This covers the nature of common aesthetic consciousness,natural beauty,artistic beauty,human beauty,revealing the universal law of beauty and the essence of"poetic logic",and laying a philosophical foundation for aesthetics as a subject.On the basis of existing research,the article carefully analyzes the relevant discourse in The New Science and previous works,to prove the connotation and value in Vico's view of nature of beauty though close reading and historical criticism methods.It discovers the overall and systematic nature of Vico's nature of beauty,and explains the aesthetic historical significance of Vico's nature of beauty,provding research values for Vico's aesthetic views.
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