摘要
康德对于美和道德之间的关系问题所给出的回答是:"美作为道德的象征",或者说"美的东西是道德的善的东西的象征"。在这里,"美"与"道德"分别作为"美的东西"和"道德的善的东西"二者的抽象名词经由"象征"一词实现了关系上的联结。这种关系的成立建构在康德对于二者的区分和类比之上:一方面,美和道德有着异质性的结构,即前者由感性图型上升至理念,而后者则由理念规范感性行动;但另一方面,两者又存在着可类比性,例如,对于美和道德的判断都能使人产生愉悦感,等等。因而,康德以"象征"来描述二者的关系至少在语义层面上是成立的。
Kant has explained the connection between beauty and morality, namely 'beauty as a symbol of morality', or 'the beautiful is a symbol of the morally good'. In this statement, we could see that the abstract 'beauty' and 'morality' is represented by 'the beautiful' and 'the morally good'respectively, and Kant used the word 'symbol' to expound the relationship between the two abstract concepts. But the question is why Kant chose the word 'symbol'? According to the analysis of Kant,beauty and morality are not only distinct, but also similar. On one hand, beauty is quite different from morality, and the beautiful is something that perceptual. Moreover, the abstraction 'beauty' comes from special perceptual pattern, but the abstraction 'morality' which guides morally behavior is just rational idea itself, and it is not from experience; on the other hand, the two concepts could also be analogy, for example, the beautiful and the morally good could make someone feel pleasure, and so on. Therefore,from the semantic perspective, Kant successfully interpreted the relationship between beauty and morality with the word 'symbol'.
出处
《哲学分析》
2015年第3期118-131,共14页
Philosophical Analysis
作者简介
作者简介：张丹，清华大学人文学院哲学系博士研究生。
