Logical Structure of Category System in Chinese Aesthetics
There is a unique category system in Chinese aesthetics.Being a knowledge structure which is unique for Chinese culture and is related to aesthetics,it is a logic network with four dynamic dimensions.It includes the following contents.(A)One logical starting point,i.e.,Wuji(the non-Ultimate).(B)A double philosophical ontology,i.e.,the essential Wuji of absolute none,and it combines with a secondary Taiji(the Great Ultimate)of relative none,by Wuji as"firstly ontology"and Taiji as"secondary ontology".(C)There are three humanistic mainstays,namely,the"Dao"(the Way)of historical-philosophical significance,the"Qi"(the Vitality)of cultural significance,and the"Xiang"(the Image)of aesthetic and phenomenological significance,and they are the three-in-one.(D)So it is a fundamental structure of category groups respectively governed by Dao(the Way)-Qi(the Vitality)-Xiang(the Image)as well as their merge.The categorical system of Chinese aesthetics has the characteristic of orderly and deeply thinking-in-poetics and poetics-in-thinking,full of life consciousness which is unique in Chinese culture.