A Study on Confucius's Views on Aesthetics: Focusing on the Unity of Form and Contents

The purpose of this study is to provide guidelines for gaining wisdom in life and utilizing it for educational aims by the study of Confucius' aesthetics of beauty and goodness. When analyzing the literature that contains his thoughts on beauty and goodness, we can see that beauty and goodness are separate, but they must be unified through truth beauty, truth goodness and delicacy to become a complete body of beauty. And he believed that beauty has value and meaning only when the content and form of beauty are in harmony. This ultimately linked beauty to the development of human civilization and the realization of the existence of the sociality of individuals. In other words, beauty was fully humanized and realized, becoming a part of everyday human social life. Its significance lies on the fact that it clearly separated the ancient totem worship and religious concepts that were originally mixed together with beauty.