先秦儒道「感官」觀念探析

Exploration and Analysis of the Idea of “Senses” in Pre-Qin Confucianism and Daoism

本文主要探討先秦儒家與道家的「感官」觀念，也即是討論其中視、聽、嗅、味、觸等身體的各種知覺反應，以作為中國美學研究的基礎。論文中探討的儒家經典，主要以《論語》、《孟子》、《荀子》為主，道家經典則以《老子》、《莊子》為主。文中並綜合歸納儒家與道家觀念上的差異，可以說是美學觀念的一種溯源工作。

This essay explores mainly the idea of “senses” in Pre-Qin Confucianism and Daoism. In other words, it discusses their ideas of various sensory responses of human body, including vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch, as the foundation of Chinese aesthetic study. The Confucian classics discussed in this essay are primarily the Analects、the Mencious and the Xunzi, and the Daoist classics are the Laozi and the Zhuangzi. This essay also synthesizes the differences between Confucian and Daoist ideas, and thus can be considered as a work of tracing the origins of later aesthetic ideas.