| Following the development of modern society, metropolis arises at the historical moment. In this major background, on one hand, big cities give more convenience,making people live more easily. On the other hand, it makes people's spiritual life in predicament, which, along with the development of metropolis, is increasingly aggravated.This paper is based on the corresponding social problems, aiming at the life state of urbanite for aesthetic reflection and trying to find the reasons of urban predicament and the measures to solve it. First of all, according to people's living conditions,the development dilemma and the thinking-about this situation, the paper puts forward to the existing problems of the modern urban society. Secondly, the paper analyzes the modern society in a philosophical method through several thinkers' philosophical and aesthetic views to deconstruct the society and defines the essence of several known tendencies about modern social existence and corresponding aesthetical tendencies. Finally, based on analyzing the features of Chinese classical and modern aesthetics, the paper advocates to inherit the excellent parts among them, proposing aesthetic ideas in view of the problems of contemporary urbanite life state, in order to achieve person's smoothing by means of aesthetic transcendence and edify human sentiment, which hopefully makes people break away from the reality and nihilistic. The objective is to call for the relative balance between rationality and sensibility to pursue a free, harmonious, and ordered life status. |
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