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1. The ideal man of Hebrew culture is the man of faith. As far as Greek culture is concerned, at least in the philosophical expressions of its two greatest philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, the ideal man is the rational man. 2. A person of faith is a complete concrete person. Hebrew culture does not look at the universal, the abstract; it always looks at the concrete, the specific, the individual. The Greeks, on the other hand, were the first thinkers in history to discover general, abstract and timeless essences, forms and ideas. 3. For the Greeks, from this came the ideal of transcendence as the path to wisdom that only philosophers could walk. ...a person who studies theory, a philosopher or a purely theoretical scientist. ...Hebrew culture emphasizes devotion, the passionate devotion of man to his mortal existence (both physical and spiritual), his descendants, family, tribe, and God. 4. For the Jews, immortality, other than the embodiment of the unknowable and terrible God, was a rather dubious concept. For the Greeks, immortality was something that man could always attain through his intellect. Hebrew Spirit and Greek Spirit 1. The ideal man of Hebrew culture is the man of faith. As far as Greek culture is concerned, at least in the philosophical expressions of its two greatest philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, the ideal man is the rational man. 2. A person of faith is a complete concrete person. Hebrew culture does not look at the universal, the abstract; it always looks at the concrete, the specific, the individual. The Greeks, on the other hand, were the first thinkers in history to discover general, abstract and timeless essences, forms and ideas. 3. For the Greeks, from this came the ideal of transcendence as the path to wisdom that only philosophers could walk. ...a person who studies theory, a philosopher or a purely theoretical scientist. ...Hebrew culture emphasizes devotion, the passionate devotion of man to his mortal existence (both physical and spiritual), his descendants, family, tribe, and God. 4. For the Jews, immortality, other than the embodiment of the unknowable and terrible God, was a rather dubious concept. For the Greeks, immortality was something that man could always attain through his intellect.

If we regard the Shuangxi spirit as the source of Western civilization, obviously, the origin of Western aesthetics is of course closely related to the Shuangxi spirit. Just as Chinese classical aesthetics was formed in the complementary pattern of Confucianism and Taoism, Western classical aesthetics was also shaped in the "giant pendulum" of the Shuangxi spirit. If in Chinese classical aesthetics, Confucianism created the aesthetic concept of "harmony" and Taoism created the concept of "miao", then, in a comparative sense, the Shuangxi spirit has also nurtured different aesthetic concepts and categories . Not strictly speaking, the Greek spirit is more closely related to the idea of America in Western aesthetics, while the Hebrew spirit is more deeply connected to the category of the sublime.


1. The ideal man of Hebrew culture is the man of faith. As far as Greek culture is concerned, at least in the philosophical expressions of its two greatest philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, the ideal man is the rational man. 2. A person of faith is a complete concrete person. Hebrew culture does not look at the universal, the abstract; it always looks at the concrete, the specific, the individual. The Greeks, on the other hand, were the first thinkers in history to discover general, abstract and timeless essences, forms and ideas. 3. For the Greeks, from this came the ideal of transcendence as the path to wisdom that only philosophers could walk. ...a person who studies theory, a philosopher or a purely theoretical scientist. ...Hebrew culture emphasizes devotion, the passionate devotion of man to his mortal existence (both physical and spiritual), his descendants, family, tribe, and God. 4. For the Jews, immortality, other than the embodiment of the unknowable and terrible God, was a rather dubious concept. For the Greeks, immortality was something that man could always attain through his intellect. Hebrew Spirit and Greek Spirit 1. The ideal man of Hebrew culture is the man of faith. As far as Greek culture is concerned, at least in the philosophical expressions of its two greatest philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, the ideal man is the rational man. 2. A person of faith is a complete concrete person. Hebrew culture does not look at the universal, the abstract; it always looks at the concrete, the specific, the individual. The Greeks, on the other hand, were the first thinkers in history to discover general, abstract and timeless essences, forms and ideas. 3. For the Greeks, from this came the ideal of transcendence as the path to wisdom that only philosophers could walk. ...a person who studies theory, a philosopher or a purely theoretical scientist. ...Hebrew culture emphasizes devotion, the passionate devotion of man to his mortal existence (both physical and spiritual), his descendants, family, tribe, and God. 4. For the Jews, immortality, other than the embodiment of the unknowable and terrible God, was a rather dubious concept. For the Greeks, immortality was something that man could always attain through his intellect.

If we regard the Shuangxi spirit as the source of Western civilization, obviously, the origin of Western aesthetics is of course closely related to the Shuangxi spirit. Just as Chinese classical aesthetics was formed in the complementary pattern of Confucianism and Taoism, Western classical aesthetics was also shaped in the "giant pendulum" of the Shuangxi spirit. If in Chinese classical aesthetics, Confucianism created the aesthetic concept of "harmony" and Taoism created the concept of "miao", then, in a comparative sense, the Shuangxi spirit has also nurtured different aesthetic concepts and categories . Not strictly speaking, the Greek spirit is more closely related to the idea of America in Western aesthetics, while the Hebrew spirit is more deeply connected to the category of the sublime.

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