A Study Of Tomonobu Imamichi’s Aesthetic Thoughts

Tomonobu Imamichi is one of the famous contemporary philosophers and aestheticians who has very high reputation even around the world.The achievements of the research of aesthetics have had a far-researching influence to Japan including international philosophy and aesthetics. Tomonobu Imamichi created a complete.systematic and rather unique aesthetic system named Calonologia, which means’" thinking the learning of the aesthetic rationally".In his view, high technology in modern society caused so many things with same sharp but different abilities everywhere, and the awareness system based on’forma’has fluctuated fundamentally, and perception lost the superiority of the understanding of the nature.As a result,the aesthetics presented in Perceptionism established by Baumgarten or the aesthetics presented in philosophy of art established by Hegel was not suitable for the needs of modem society. So Tomonobu Imamichi made a thorough update on the aesthetics. He divided the aesthetics into the aesthetic of learning and the art of learning two parts,the former named Calonologia is a science as an object of aesthetic itself and aesthetic is the object of rational thinking;the latter named Artiologia which is related to the art of learning. With this division of showing that the aesthetic and rational is interactive rather than the aesthetic and perceptual.in the meantime also make it clear that the boundaries of the art and aesthetic.In this new aesthetics concept of Calonologia,"Transcendence" is its core.The purpose of Tomonobu Imamichi created th Calonologia is that beyond or defeat the existence of the things which are related to the’forma’,rebuilding the aesthetics and seeking for a replacement.He deemed that the aesthetic is beyond the real and virtuous and in the highest valued position.it exists in the presence of the other side.Only when people make sacrifice for those people or things they love even devote life,namely when people negate the existence of self,the highest and most beautiful radiance would be presented. Such a beautiful existence can only be a "super-exisf"exist.In the aesthetic system of Tomonobu Imamichi,there are some important core concepts:interpretation,imagination and phase.The interpretation of Tomonobu Imamichi talked about has a certain relevance to the hermeneutics developed since17th century.but still has a big different. Tomonobu Imamichi stressed that the perception of works of the art and the rational interception of finding aesthetics cannot be confused,analysis only can implement the explanatory studies or works,and interpretation has a direct a dialogue with works,therefore,the spirit developed by the introduction of the valued works,so people capture the transcendence aesthetics.Meanwhile.in this progress,people access to the new life of inner,Interpretation is a creation.In regard to’imagination’.Tomonobu Imamichi considered that its a tinking ability by beyond the perception and under the rationales a cogitation which based on the visual effect of image,imagination can break the boundary of the perception.fulfill the calculation and the thinking which the concept cannot do.The image is the core and medium of imagination,its the results of the human consciousness.only by fully unleased can the imagination be a image.’Phase’was a numerical which was originally used to determine the physical quantities for sinusoidal variation,Tomonobu Imamichi brought the’phase’into the aesthetics studies to illustrate the formation process of consciousness and essence.He believed that the reasons of why bring about natural beauty, artistic beauty, the beauty of technology and personality beauty and so on were that the differences of the consciousness in the movement. Phase of Aesthetics in consciousness are changing instantly result of the changing of the aesthetics in different levels.The categories of aesthetics are determined by objective things unilateral.Tomonobu Imamichi devoted his whole life to build the Huge aesthetic system--CaIonologia,however,its not set in stone.With Tomonobu Imamichi’s deep understanding of the aesthetics,this system is continuously develope and improve. Before the1970s of the last century,have affected by the Western existential philosophy,and aesthetics,Tomonobu Imamichi Started the Cronologia reflections in the ontological dimension and comleted the Construction of a description of the aesthetics in essence and aesthetic system.He believed that’the ontological of aesthetics=epistemological metaphysical aesthetics’.From the mid-1970s,Tomonobu Imamichi thought that the part which was not accommodated in ontological is the most meaningful is Necessary to jump out of the field of ontology.place the aesthetics in the other side of existence and re-examine the aesthetics.Aesthetics is valued only in the negation of existence. Wherefore.Tomonobu Imamichi claimed that his aesthetics is metaphysics that is separated from the ontological,which aims to break the cliches that the ontological of20th century to replace the epistemology of nineteenth century.Tomonobu Imamichi reputed that modern society is the technology associated with the social,and in the totally different from the new society,and problems are followed by emphasizing on function contempt entity,technology abstract,deciding the purpose with artifices and the alienation of human.He pondered the method for solving these problems in the field of aesthetics,then proposed art as cohesion of aesthetics which looked the temporality exist and full expression of human consciousness as characteristics can bring humanity reversion.Because of the aesthetic experience, the important thing is temporality as process.Tomonobu Imamichi’s aesthetics system integrated into Martin Heidegger’s Existentialist, Husserl’s phenomenology, hermeneutics,Ancient Greek Plato, Chinese Chuang Tzu and Confucius ideology as well as the wisdom of metaphysical aesthetics of Souriau, Bellinger and Paredes Johnson and the thoughts of many genres, which also contains its own unique aesthetic thinking.His aesthetics system inherited others philosophical and aesthetic ideas,also was the original creation of his own Philosophical and aesthetic ideology.As the continuous development of the latest achievements of Tomonobu Imamichi,the concept of the ’Practical aesthetics’ was to be presented.In his view of ’in oeder to live better’,there must be more attention to the human’sliving environment and life practice."Practical Aesthetics" means "for the practice of aesthetic " or "aesthetic associated with the practice of the aesthetics".Through the thinking of the’practical aesthetics’,which aims to appeal more people become practitioners of creating beauty in daily life and working life,care more about our survival situation, alert and prevent the over-exploitation of resources、terrorism and wars.etc. to damage our environment.Aesthetic ideological system of Tomonobu Imamichi has a very close history and relationship with the Chinese and Japanese classical aesthetics.He used the modern concepts and methods given a new era significance to Oriental aesthetics In the context of modern academic.Studying Tomonobu Imamichi’s aesthetics system has very important inspiration to construct Chinese Aesthetics and Oriental aesthetics.At the same,Tomonobu Imamichi’s aesthetics pay attention to reality,thinking about future,through the thinking of philosophy and aesthetics to search the answers for people how to get rid of dehumanized fate having a distinctive character.Tomonobu Imamichi’s aesthetic studies involving in many fields of philosophy.Through the cross fusion of aesthetics and other disciplines to solve the problems that human put forward in modern life.Tomonobu Imamichi also proposed the idea of combining Eastern and Western philosophy culture, for the elimination of the "Oriental center" or "Western Aesthetics Center"has a certain value for references.