Metaphysics And Aesthetics

This study attempts to explore the possibility of Aesthetics on the ontological basic of Western metaphysics.The question pattern of "possibility" determines, Aesthetics is neither an ossified system nor a thorough "no". It is, on the contrary, an self-developed organism which is somewhere betwixt and between. Metaphysics energizes Aesthetics to move back and forth in between, and in turn, activate western thought as a whole. "Post-metaphysics" eradicate the rigid understanding of metaphysics by interpreting it as a sign of the reflextive western thought, and by means of that, open the possibility of Aesthetics. "Post-metaphysics", as the self-awareness, self-reflection and self education of the western thought, give birth to Aesthetics on the ontological basic.Stretching and developing on the ontological basic of metaphysics, Aesthetics inherits and bears the encumbrances of metaphysics. The Constructing process of Aesthetics is itself a defence of "modernity", which is the lineal heir to metaphysical traditional, and the symbolic event of modernity. In the Constructing and defence process, arguments and encumbrances of metaphysics are reiterated in changed ways. The main reiteration includes:firstly, the pursuit of entirety and the externalization of the pursuit. The immediate entirety of metaphysics is refreshed by "aesthesis", "beauty" and "freedom" in the modern world. Secondly, the modern epistemological frame is still the basic grammer of the externalization of Aesthetics. Binary opposition cannot be abandoned perfunctorily, at least on the externalization and expression level. Thirdly, the transcendental configurations (Idea, Sein, God, Subject, Language, etc.) have been transformed from formal stipulations to the essence of western thought. In modernity, when the social cohesion collapsed, and the formative function of significance failed, Aesthetics functions as a spiritualism in the modern world. The encumbrances of metaphysics are not only debts, they can also play as the Resources and odds in the Constructing process of Aesthetics. To accomplish the transform from debts to odds, It is necessary to withstand the Theoretical Torments and pains in the process of the metaphysical reflections. The study carries on along with the process of withstanding. Nietzsche probes the history of metaphysical infection, and diagnoses the western in the name of "life" and for life's sake. He appeals to treatment. In the extreme circumstance of treatment, Nietzsche acknowledges the metaphysical trait of the treatment itself. By admitting the metaphysical trait of his treatment, Nietzsche is forced by himself to the edge of thought. Standing on the edge of thought, Nietzsche also carries forward the metaphysics to its own edge. The edge is the very exposure of the self-reflection of metaphysics. "Life" is the lighthouse settled by Nietzsche to avoid any kind of metaphysics. "Where there is life, there is beauty", is the basic creed of Nietzsche's Aesthetics. Nietzsche's "life Aesthetics" is thus the symbol of the possibility of metaphysics and the withstanding of it as well.Heidegger activates the intrinsic reflection of metaphysics with the "ontological discrepancy" between "Sein" and "Das Seiende", and induces us to the ontological basic which is between "nothingness" and ossified "Das Seiende" by "truth" and "Arts". Heidegger confirms the confrontation of Greek "beauty" and the modern Aesthetics in the history of Metaphysics. It is just at he modern time, when the Greek "beauty" is impossible, the modern Aesthetics comes into being; Aesthetics is response and preservation of "beauty", as well as the block and forgetting of the latter. The forgetting of "Das Seiende" and that of Greek "beauty" explain each other. Heidegger explores the possibility of Aesthetics, and appeals us to keep the "ontological discrepancy" in mind, or at least not forget the "forgetting" itself. Thereafter, Heidegger's Aesthetics mirrors the self-reflection of Metaphysics. Heidegger's exploration of the possibility of Aesthetics, is intrinsically a critique of modernity.By withstanding the extremely possibility of metaphysics, a covert history of the birth of Aesthetics is revealed. The genetic study of Aesthetics, which begins with Baumgarten, is different and mirrors that which is based on the self-awareness of metaphysics. linked and different from the former, the latter could be regarded as the "inner history" or "pre-history" of Aesthetics. The "pre-history" of Aesthetics is conscientious of its distance from any rigid system. To maintain Aesthetics in the "pre-history" situation, is a tough and tasking mission of thought.