To The Unity Of Man And GOD

Plotinus is a’Greek philosopher’ who lives in the ancient Rome, and he is also a connecting link between the ancient world and the middle ages. This paper which is mainly based on his aesthetics and established in his two aesthetics articles ’On Beauty’ and ’On the Intellectual Beauty’ combined with his metaphysics have his aesthetic be expressed as a circle structure formed by the ’fall’ and ’rise’ structure.This article discusses three aspects——ontology, subjectivity and art theory. The first chapter focuses on Plotinus’ beauty ontology and discusses the ’fall’ structure. This chapter is based on the clue of the emanation of the ’one’ and then explores how the ’beauty’ degenerates step by step. The second chapter focuses on Plotinus’ subjectivity of aesthetics. In this chapter, it is revealed that how aesthetics subject realizes its rising and finally returns to the ’one’ by an inner vision. And then, in the next chapter, Plotinus’ theory of art is discussed to analyse how he mediated the traditional ’mimetic theory’ and the new ’Representation’and form his unique theory of art.Also, considered the special age he lived and thoughts he had, his aesthetics had a big influence over the theological aesthetics in the medieval. Of course, the theological aesthetician didn’t ape Plotinus at every step. They filled the structure of Plotinus’ aesthetics with religious doctrine at the same time they inherited it. This can be a inheriting which appeared united outwardly but divided at heart. The epilogue of the paper will discuss this problem.