The Research Of The Rre-existing Cognitive Scheme Of Motse And His Denunciation Of Music Aesthetics

Motse's denunciation of music was a very unique ideology in the Pre-Qin period. But in the past, the researches of it was too much simplified, and researchers of Mohism didnot pay due attention to its merits. Piaget's cognitive scheme will be applied in this thesis to give a new and systematic research to this ideology.The thesis will consist of 4 chapters:The first chapter will discuss the basic ideas, categories, and contents of Piaget's cognitive scheme."Sheme" is the core concept in Piaget's genetic epistemology theory. Sheme is a cognitive structure that owned by the subject, which can recieve and process external information. The thoughts of subject-consisting-object and object-consisting-subject are of vital importance in this genetic epistemology theory, and are the most special part when piaget analyzes the problem of subject and object. In the researches of cognitive scheme, he once put forward a thoery called "Assimilation-conformance", and he used it to explain and rystallize interactions between subject and object. This theory was regarded as a landmark in the researches of cognitive scheme. The subject would use cognitive scheme to assimilate or acclimate to the object the information, and then cognition would be produced. With these ideas, i.e.scheme, assimilation, conformance,etc, Piaget analyzed concrete ways of forming and developing processes of individual's congnitio, point out the actual structure of its performance, and all thses provided us with a way to give deep understanding of reaction theory. But there're also some demerits in his theory, so based on the critique of this, this chapter will discuss its consisting elements, functions, and characterisctics, so as to prepare the theoratical foundation for analysing "denunciation of music" ideology.Pre-exsiting cognitive scheme exists in all those establishment of different theories, it's the pre-existing foundation and bacis unit of every ideological systems' consturction. So we have to look at it before we try to understand Motse's denunciation of music. We'll find out how it affects and impels the formation of this unique ideology. So the next chapter will explain the forming procedures of Mohism in cognitive scheme from the angle of the latter's consisting elements: thinking mode, knowledge structure, life's value concept, subjective sttitude, etc. This is the pre-existing basis for the denunciation of music.Subject's cognitive scheme is able to select, integrate and explain object inforamtion. When Motse formed his own stable cognitive scheme, his views on things would be narrowed, that is to say, things that met his cognitive scheme would be accepted easier than those couldn't, and they would affect his way of thinking and analyzing things, and finally they would affect the results of the former 2 procedures. Undter the influences of all these above factors, Motse formed his denunciation of music ideology. The third chapter will discuss trigger, reason, content of the denunciation of music, and give an objective evaluation of this unique aesthetics.The last part will mainly discuss the reason of Mohism's decadency and the meaning of the ideology of denunciation of music in our modern era. After the formation of Mohism's system, those consisting elements in its scheme became more and more stable, and the adaptive mechanism couldn't operate as it used to be so that it's impossible for its subject to give correct judgement to new things and new phenomenons, and this lead to the declination of Mohism. Although Mohism is falling into a decline, the spirit of it will last forever. This part will discuss the meaning of denunciation of music ideology in our modern society through comapring it with the aestheticization of everyday life. This thesis considers the aestheticization of everyday life as one of those social representations of man's free and overall development. Now we are at the primary stage of socialism. The aestheticization of everyday life in China's society is complex and every dimensions of it are affecting each other. We should adopt critical spirit in Motse's "denunciation of music" ideology to analyze and estimate this phenomena. Not only shoud we pay attention to those aestheticized activites in the aesthetics in daily lives, but also we should pay attention to those unaestheticized acitivities. We should keep our reason when we aestheticizing our daily lives, and undo it now and then,, so that our lives could be more brighter in the future, that what we've been taught by Motse, and that's the power of Mohism in 21th century.