Open AccessMy View on Confucius’ Musical Aesthetics
Author(s) -
Xiaoqing Wen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lifelong education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2251-2683
DOI - 10.18282/le.v9i7.1473
Subject(s) - etiquette , period (music) , aesthetics , musical , ideology , perfection , consciousness , music education , philosophy of music , literature , art , sociology , philosophy , politics , music history , visual arts , epistemology , law , political science , linguistics
During the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, the ideology environment was severe. Hundreds of scholars competed and argued, and they all used their own musical concepts and aesthetic consciousness to influence social life. Confucius was one of them. As we all know, Confucius was the great pre-Qin period thinker, politician, and educator of etiquette and music. His achievements in music aesthetics are different from other schools of “contend of a hundred schools of thought”. Confucius’s aesthetic thoughts are actually the aesthetic thoughts he formed in the practice of ritual and music education. This article discusses his musical spirit, the aesthetic propositions of “benevolence”, “perfect perfection”, “neutrality”, and music education.