The Self-Transcendence in Chapter “De Chong Fu 德充符” of the Zhuangzi—Starting from Kant’s Symbolic Relationship Between Beauty and Morality
Religions August 25, 2025 Miao Deng, Cuiqin Li
Judging a person’s appearance as beautiful or ugly is not a factual description but an aesthetic act. Kant believed that the human figure is the ideal of beauty, and at the same time, beauty can positively symbolize morality. However, regarding the correlation between aesthetics and morality, the Chapter “De Chong Fu 德充符” in the Zhuangzi offers us a strikingly insightful perspective that is...