On Ekbert Faas' Evolutionary Aesthetics

For a long time,Western traditional aesthetic research has a tradition of focusing on rational speculation.Although there are also Hume's and other people's emphasis on experience,overall,in the aesthetic and aesthetic research,aesthetic thinking is more focused on aesthetics.However,people are not only rational but also perceptual,and the art as a product of human beings is inextricably linked with human sensibility.Evolutionary aesthetics holds that art is the product of human practice.In the process of human evolution,art has evolved to a certain degree with human evolution.As a focus on human esthetic aesthetic research,evolutionary aesthetics focuses its research on the premise of human biological attributes.On the basis of natural selection and sexual selection,scientific and empirical approaches to beauty and aesthetics and art are studied.From the point of view of the species to study the problems of beauty,many problems encountered in the Institute of Aesthetics that try to solve the rational thinking tendency.The author of "Aesthetic Genealogy," a well-known Canadian scholar and literary critic Ekbert Faas,insists on the aesthetic view of evolution,but he believes that evolutionary theory of aesthetics itself has its own shortcomings.Based on the theory of evolutionary science,aesthetics research based on evolution theory put aesthetic issues such as aesthetics and aesthetics in the operation of presupposition and verification.Sensual people are covered.In this way,the study of evolutionary aesthetics and the traditional aesthetic research focused on speculative traditions seem to go all the same.Faas believes that Nietzsche's aesthetic instinct theory and the existing research results of contemporary cognitive science are important aspects of evolutionary aesthetic research.Based on the sensuous experience of human beings and the long-term adaptation of human beings to nature,aesthetics and aesthetics,even artistic creation and appreciation,have been continuously developed.It is not difficult to find that Faas' s theory of evolutionary aesthetics is a combination of science and synthesis.He not only noticed the neglect of the perceptual experience in traditional aesthetic research focused on speculation,but also noted the need to perfect the theory of evolutionary aesthetics itself.For the development of the theory of evolutionary aesthetics and one of the important approaches for the study of aesthetics in the future,Faas' s theory of evolutionary aesthetics cannot be ignored.This article will focus on the ideological background and theoretical origins,basic contents,and theoretical contributions and limitations of Faas' s aesthetic theory of evolution.It is divided into five parts:The first part,introduction.It mainly introduces the issue of the theory of evolution of Faas' evolution,the research status,research purpose,method and the framework of the full text.On this basis,the discussion on the aesthetics of the evolution of Faas was discussed.In the second part,the theoretical background and ideological origin of Faas' s theory of evolutionary aesthetics.It mainly discusses the transformation of aesthetic research methods and the development of neo-evolutionary aesthetics as an important theoretical background for the evolution of Faas' s aesthetics,and Nietzsche's aesthetic instinct theories,the study of sexual selection in cognitive science and the aesthetics of aesthetics in the history of aesthetics as Faas The main ideological origins of evolutionary aesthetics It is on the basis of the integrated research results of cognitive science and Nietzsche's aesthetic instinct theory that Faas built its evolutionary aesthetics.The third part is about the basic content of Faas' s theory of evolutionary aesthetics.It mainly discusses the "breaking" and "establishing" of Faas' s evolutionary aesthetics.The former is a criticism of traditional aesthetics,including traditional aesthetics in research positions and research methods,basic theories,and representative theorists;Then it revolves around the position,method,principle and core content of the construction of Faas' evolution aesthetics.After the reassessment of the value of traditional aesthetics,Faas gave his view on the future of aesthetics.According to Faas,evolutionary aesthetics is one of the paths that can not be ignored in future aesthetic research.In the fourth part,the contribution,significance and limitation of Faas' evolution aesthetics.It mainly discusses the advancement of Faas as a biological evolutionist aesthetic,the importance of biological evolution theory in aesthetics research,and many omissions in Faas' s theory of evolution.Although Faas' s evolutionary aesthetics research has achieved convincing research results,it also has contradictions and deficiencies,and is the place where its theory needs to be improved.The fifth part,conclusion.This paper summarizes the analysis of the full text,and then summarizes the perfection of the theory of aesthetics of evolutionary aesthetics from the perspective of the aesthetic theory of Faas' s evolution theory.Faas' s evolutionary aesthetics corrects and supplements evolutionary aesthetics,making a more fundamental theoretical preparation for the further development of evolutionary aesthetics.