Peak 325 Art is Moving

In fact, I often ask myself that his themes and expressions are not related, such as the tragedy of Russia, which may have a very grand historical depth and shock you, but some tragedies also shock you. What he wrote was just some information about an ordinary German citizen. In our opinion, sometimes there is a matter of counting chicken feathers as skin. The first sentence of the cherry orchard is, come up and ask the female protagonist, why are you wearing black clothes?

I will pay tribute to my life again.

The first sentence knocked you down from the beginning, and you felt that it was not like a storm, not like King Lear, not like a tragedy like Oedipus, writing something like that, but you still felt a shock.

So, the kind of vibration in art, on the contrary, when we look at the battles of the north and south, or the landmine warfare, it won't give you such a vibration. Its scale is actually grand, with hundreds of thousands of troops deployed in the three major strategies, and tanks and planes used to bomb there. Why isn't it here? Does it reflect absolute, absolute ideals. We cannot say what our ideal is.

No one tells us an ideal, and we are moved and sometimes shed tears. This shows that we are born knowing that when we suddenly connect with that thing, we feel unbearable. The concept of beauty is the concept of truth, and the absolute that is grasped by aesthetic consciousness as beauty and the absolute that is grasped as truth in philosophy are the same absolute. In Hegel's view, beauty and truth are one. What shakes us in art, or perhaps in small logic, can shake us. In Hegel's view, the reason why it can shake your soul is because they are actually the same absolute. However, the form of its appearance is different from the pattern we humans grasp.

Aesthetic intuition and philosophical speculation are not the same thing, of course, there is a difference between them. This is not a problem, but the problem is that beauty is expressed in an absolute way. Hegel, according to us, can also be said to be biased. He does not deny the existence of beauty in nature, but he insists that artistic beauty should be higher. Why?

Because art does not directly involve human spirit, but it is our artistic beauty that directly creates our spirit. That is the spirit of spiritual people. With the help of their artistic creation, they express themselves to themselves. Spirit and its products, that is, the art created by humans should be higher than natural beauty, and artistic beauty should be higher than nature.

Hegel's attention is entirely limited to artistic beauty when it comes to aesthetics.

He underestimated the natural beauty as a sacred expression, which is indeed a pity. In fact, Kant would say that the reason why nature shows such a state is that there is a god in it. Hegel would say, regardless of whether he has human spirit in me or not, and that there is no human spirit in Mount Taishan sunrise. He is purely an external expression of nature, and he may be lower than the sunrise we painted. He sees the problem in this way.

Of course, we can also ask, what does artistic beauty mean by the manifestation and phenomenon of ideas?

In Hegel's philosophy, it is the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, and in the works of artistic beauty, this unity is manifested as the unity of spiritual content and external material manifestation. The external material can be marble, bronze, or the paint, paper, and other canvas we use, while the internal is the various creative ideas of an artist like me. In fact, the spiritual and material, subjective and objective, are harmoniously integrated and unified in the artwork.

So, he has a high evaluation of art, and artworks represent the unity of subjectivity and objectivity.

Art has the task of presenting ideas in a sensory form, rather than in the form of ideas or pure spirituality. The value and dignity of this presentation lie in the consistency between the ideal content and its embodiment. On the one hand, it contains ideal content, and on the other hand, it has a concrete embodiment of reality. The Great Wall of China, the pyramids of Egypt, the temples of Athens, or a painting by Qi Baishi, all have consistency in both their embodiment and concept.

The perfection and excellence of this art are consistent with the concept of its product itself, depending on the ideal content and emotional form, the internal harmony and unity that permeate each other.

I think artists can appreciate aesthetics by themselves. Of course, relatively speaking, I believe that among all Hegel's works, aesthetics is relatively easier. There is currently no good version of spiritual philosophy.

Because some of our versions are now translated from Russian, and of course, there are two old gentlemen in Beijing who are leading the work on the complete works of Hegel. We will wait and see how they are translated from German. Philosophy is the focus, and the four volume lecture notes can also be seen.

However, I have already talked about Hegel's main ideas earlier. You can actually read the following things for yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't touch them for the time being, such as art philosophy, religious philosophy, and philosophical history.

But one thing is possible, his thing is worth seeing, reading, and dealing with for a lifetime.

I am also like this, because due to work reasons, I cannot say that I will read for the sake of reading like you did when I was young. Nowadays, it is often said that sometimes it is impossible to say that I will not do anything for another three months, so I will read one of Hegel's works again.

However, for work or other reasons, I partially read every year, but every time I read, I have a new feeling. This is the difference between giants and ordinary thinkers. Giants are giants, and every time I read it, I feel like I've never read this book before. That's right, it's not that you have a bad memory, it's that it has so much depth for you to further explore and as your own understanding improves, you can also gain it.

So, I hope that in the future, our main focus on reading will be on this aspect. My current feeling is that cultivating graduate students is also a good way, especially in terms of original works. The only downside is second-hand works, as reading too much doesn't yield any good results.

In the future, being a teacher will also be a mediocre one. We must work hard on the original work. Our human civilization, which has lasted for thousands of years, is the present moment. If we don't use it, we will be killed. Don't talk about teachers now. As an undergraduate student, you can control him. Think about teachers. At that time, he was a primary school student here because I didn't go to high school. He started as a disciple of a primary school student in the countryside.

Many adults are easy to learn, which is normal. I don't understand either. People gradually understand these difficult books from never understanding them. If you think you give up because you don't understand me, then you will never understand. You can also imagine that the teacher has a primary school education level. At the beginning, you can also imagine the difficulties of reading. It's just that you don't have to be discouraged. Don't say you waste time. I won't read anymore. If you bite your teeth and persist, you will gradually have a clue. I have found that my current students are all like this.

To be honest, when I first came here, I wasn't very satisfied with it when I was in first grade. After two or three years, it's still okay now. Everyone knows that I found a way to read, read the original works, and read the tips quite well, which is why I treated him well.

Don't be afraid. We have finished our semester of Classical German Philosophy. If you feel that the course is still valuable and rewarding for you, I would like to say that you are quite lucky because our current course schedule is based on the Chinese yuan

Why is he scheduled for four classes now? We want to bring him over because we have a sum of money, and then we find an excuse to say that each teacher can give him some subsidies during class. Hegel said that the world is rational, how can we make money without making money? Is it rational? Finally, I want to say that you are lucky to catch the last four classes. However, I know from my conscience that for German classical philosophy, if you don't give him enough time, it's really just a chat.