‘莊子’의 審美世界, 美學인가 美遊인가?

Abstract

Aesthetics is no longer a term for scholars. Not only experts but, ordinary people use the term and based on the word people make other words such as “rujia-meixue 儒家美學,” “daojia-meixue 道家美學,” “Kongzi-meixue 孔子美學,” and “Zhuangzi-meixue 莊子美學.” Unlikely Eastern intellectual tradition, in western society Aesthetics originally establishes on sensuous cognition which is contrasted with rational cognition. This means fundamental conflict between reason and emotion. In this circumstance, “Is Eastern Aesthetic possible?” In this paper, narrowing this question down with Zhuangzi 莊子 and finding answer about possibility of Zhuangzi’s Aesthetics. Zhuangzi attempts to exclude empathy when he faces unfolded nature and does not affirm one side of the conceptuality about da 大 and xiao 小. Following his principle it is hard to say there is the only norms like “Zhuangzi-meixue,” and the therm does not keep up with Zhuangzi’s basic idea. In stead of “meixue 美學,” I suggest “meiyou 美遊” and “meidao 美道,” which contain Zhuangzi’s fundamental thought and the feature of his aesthetic idea.