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The Voice Of Nature’s Child

Posted on:2015-01-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z R LiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2267330428967873Subject:Literature and art
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In the Enlightenment, which regards rationality as the god and pursuits the rational education. As a child of nature, Rousseau’s thought and Encylopaedists sent be misfits. As we all know, the concept of aesthetic education pioneered by Schiller out,and for most of the Scholar, Rousseau’s thought is irrelevant. However, Rousseau’s work encompasses rich and profound thought of it. Face to "humanity split", Rousseau gives sensual, emotional legitimate authority, advocates a natural emotion to shape the perfect personality education, training a finished man who is intact, emotional, rational and harmonious. We need to be prepared to come into this rich treasure-house, because Rousseau’s ideas scattered his literary work of anthropology, philosophy, pedagogic and so on. You will feel Rousseau’s pulse if you research from the goal, principle, method and impact of his thought."Natural man", a aesthetic education ideas of Rousseau, is not noly the goal, but also the beliefs of Rousseau’s pursuits. The "Natural man" is living in the state of nature who is humanity, conscience and self-love. In his heart, no desire and only needs to give its innate ablity to self-improvement, and to achieve freedom. And the original state comes from Rousseau’s mind which is equal and harmonious, without hierarchy degree of oppression and enslavement of instrumental rationality. Around the "Natural man" default this goal, Rousseau conform to the natural order, return to inner feelings, attach importance to the aesthetic experience of these three natural aesthetic educational principle. In order to achieve the aim, Rousseau advocated the idea of the way of the natural beauty, follow the principle of harmony with nature, through exercise, the education of means feeling and emotional education to improve people’s feeling and morality, rich people’s emotions. Rousseau’s aesthetic educational ideas has a significant impact in the next two centuries of pedagogic and literature, and even directly affecting some of the people of Western educator. Meanwhile, through the research of Rousseau’s aesthetic ideas of our current cultural construction, construction of ecological civilization is of great significance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rousseau, Aesthetic Education, Emotion, Nature
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