Scientific Construction and Interpretation of Chinese Native Aesthetic Discourse
The scientific aesthetic research in China has formed the native discourse of Chinese aesthetics and made a new interpretation of the internal mechanism of aesthetic activities,which is different from the traditional ontological aesthetics in the West:there is a natural connection between the appearance of object and the object itself as well as its intrinsic value,between the intrinsic value of object and human needs and emotions.This situation is manifested in the cognitive nervous system of human brain as follows:the perception of the appearance of object constitutes the perception center,the understanding of the intrinsic value of object constitutes the meaning center,and the emotional response to the object constitutes the emotional center;when a person perceives an object,these three centers are immediately activated one after another to form a temporary neural response connection chain.The uniqueness and stability of this neural response connection chain make it a functional cognitive module corresponding to a certain object.Under the premise that the cognitive module has been formed,people can intuitively arouse the cognition and emotion when they encounter the object that matches such a cognitive module.When people are not in urgent need of interest,they will pay less attention to the intrinsic value of an object.As a result,the meaning center is not highly activated,but the perceptual center and the emotional center can still be highly activated and thus form a direct correlation between the two,constituting a new and aesthetic cognitive module.Its external manifestation is that the appearance of object can directly bring pleasant feeling.Under this circumstance,the emotion is not related to the need of interest and is called the aesthetic of disinterest.The object arousing the esthetic is therefore called esthetics.Based on Marxist philosophy and the objectification of human essential power,this theory is a concrete expression of human essential power in the aesthetic life structure,and it can effectively make a scientific analysis of practical and theoretical issues such as utilitarianism and non-utilitarianism of Immanuel Kant's aesthetic theory and literature.
Chinese native aesthetic discoursescientific aestheticscognitive approachcognitive neuroaesthetics
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