The significance of aesthetics to people is not only to exercise thinking or cultivate sentiment. Yoga can also do these two things. If art makes people become people, then the study of aesthetic theory is actually the understanding and inheritance of the ideals behind people becoming people. This is the fundamental reason why aesthetics can never be popularized.

The civilization of a nation depends on the deepening of its aesthetic theory; Whether the civilization history of this nation and its aesthetic history are mutually clear depends on how this nation denies and criticizes its natural nature (animality) as a human being.

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Looking back on enlightenment through modern philosophy and aesthetics, we will find that the biggest drawback of enlightenment is that it has not broken through the rational-perceptual level. Enlightenment aesthetes attacked theocracy and preached democracy and science (Mr. De and Mr. Sai), but failed to expose the hierarchical tendency behind power.

Hegel is the last master of classical aesthetics, where aesthetics is completely systematic, but it also begins to escape and get farther and farther away from reality. When we talk about beauty and ugliness, we need poetic literary theory; When we talk about the value and culture of beauty and ugliness, what we need is aesthetics.