Abstract
This chapter starts from the reflection and analysis of the origin of “beauty” in the Confucian aesthetics. It first traces its origin in the suggestion of the Confucian moral mind. The emergence process involved is regarded as a very different one from that of the Western mainstream, in which the subject and object dichotomy is presupposed.
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Confucius’ discussion and evaluation of Shao music is recorded in Chap. 3 of Analetics.
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One of the representative works is Arnold Berleant’s Art and Environment.
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For further discussion, see Man (2000, pp. 155–169).
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Man, E.K.W. (2015). Some Reflections on Confucian Aesthetics and Its Feminist Modalities. In: Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Context. Chinese Contemporary Art Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46510-3_5
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