دانلود کتاب Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 The Pictographic Character and Totemism
The Pictographic Character for Beauty
The Big-Goat Image: Flavor and Taste
The Goat-Man Image: Rituality and Spirituality
The Dynamic Beauty: Two Totemic Symbols
2 The Pottery and Bronze Art
The Expressive and Significant Form
The Ferocious Beauty
The Grotesque Beauty
The Symbolic Beauty
The Chime-Bells and the Galloping Horse
3 Ethos of the Rites-Music Tradition
The Beauty of Music and Rites
The Multifunction of Music
The Performance of Rites for Harmony
The Aesthetic and Moral Interaction
Cosmological and Quasi-Religious Implications
4 Confucian Ideal and Equilibrium Harmony
The Beauty of the Ideal Personality
A Further Enhancement of the Ideal
Basic Methods of Personality Development
A Dual Expectation of Artistic Perfection
Equilibrium Harmony as Beauty
Moderation of Emotional Expression
An Integrated Interpretation of Poetry
A Moralized Principle a Priori
An Extended Scope of the Literary Mind
Three Modified Theories of Poetic Beauty
5 Critique of Mohist Utilitarianism
A Challenge to Confucian Values
Against Music and Negative Utilitarianism
For Music and Positive Utilitarianism
Reflections on the Opposing Views
From Joy-Consciousness to Optimistic Spirit
6 Daoist Pursuit and Spontaneous Naturalness
The Beauty of the Daoist Personality
The Pragmatic Way of the Sagely Person
The Spiritual Freedom of the True Person
The Mind-Heart Excursion for a Good Life
The Beautiful and the Ugly
Beautiful Words Versus True Words
The Great Beauty of Silence
Contemplative Attitude and Mutual Production
Spontaneous Naturalness as Beauty
Soundless Music and Stylistic Creation
7 Beyond Poetic Sentimentalism
Personality Beauty of Qu Yuan
Grotesque Imagery as a Tour de Force
Expression of Heart-Felt Emotions
A Sentimental Concern in Question
8 Chan Buddhism and Subtle Void
The Idea of Chan as Dhyāna
The Poetic Wisdom of Gāthā
Sudden Awakening and Chan Sense
Subtle Void as Beauty
The Poetic Art of Chan Realm
9 The Water Allegory and Waterscapes
The Hidden Stream
The Water Allegory
The Moral Symbolism
The Beautiful Waterscape
The Majestic Waterscape
The Musical Water Sounds
10 The Art of Painting Landscape
The Synthetic Beauty
The Six Rules
A Hierarchy of Five Levels
The Four Attainments and the Three Distances
The Three Steps of Painting Landscape
The Absence of Self and the Presence of Self
11 The Rise of Modern Chinese Aesthetics
Fragmentary Account
Systematic Framing
Intellectual Enlightenment
Transcultural Rediscovery
Theoretical Incorporation
Comprehensive Praxis
The Poetic State Par Excellence
The Theory of Art as Sedimentation
12 How-to-Live Concern and Fourfold Engagement
The How-to-Live Concern
The Structure of Human Capacity
Beyond Aesthetic Engagement
Illuminate the True Through the Beautiful
Furnish the Good Through the Beautiful
Make Life Worthwhile Through the Beautiful
Create the Beautiful According to the Proper Measure
Epilogue
References
Index