呂澂美育著作的近代日本文藝材源與生命主義

On the Modern Japanese Sources of LüCheng’s Works on Aesthetic Education and Vitalism

呂澂作為近代美育思潮發展中的關鍵個案，其思想淵源與材源問題長期以來未得充分釐清。本文以呂澂美育著作之材源為切入點，梳理其源流與觀點，發現其中相當部分具有明確的日語藍本，其內容與主張可追溯至歐洲及東亞美育思想的跨文化脈絡。此發現不僅為重構呂澂的美學閱讀史提供了實證基礎，也有助於釐清其思想形成的知識來源與文化接觸面。在材源考證的基礎上，本文進一步探討呂澂美學體系中與「人格」、「人生」相關的核心概念，兼論其唯識學思想與美學理論的內在關聯。通過對《美學概論》、《輓近美學思潮》等代表性著作的個案探討，本文將呂澂所提出的「生命美學」置於近代歐亞思想交匯的宏觀背景下考察，並試圖提出，呂澂的「生命美學」不僅與日本學者阿部次郎的「人格主義」具有明顯的理論淵源，更是東亞生命主義思潮之一環，對於重審呂澂在近代美學思想史上的地位，以及理解東亞現代美學思想的跨文化傳播與轉化均具有重要意義。

Despite his influence on the development of modern aesthetic education, LüCheng’s intellectual origins and textual sources have remained insufficiently clarified. This paper traces the lineage and viewpoints of his writings, revealing that a significant portion derives clearly from Japanese sources, with claims rooted in the transcultural contexts of European and East Asian aesthetic thought. These findings provide an empirical basis for reconstructing the history of LüCheng’s aesthetic reading, while clarifying the knowledge networks and cultural interactions that shaped his ideas. Through this source investigation, the paper further explores core concepts related to“personality”and“life”within LüCheng’s aesthetic system, while discussing the intrinsic connections between his Yogācāra thought and aesthetic theory. Through case studies of representative works such as Introduction to Aesthetics and Recent Trends in Aesthetic Thought, this paper situates LüCheng’s“Aesthetics of Life”within the broader framework of modern Euro-Asian intellectual intersections. It argues that his“Aesthetics of Life”not only has clear theoretical origins in the“Personalism”of the Japanese scholar Abe Jirōbut constitutes a vital component of East Asian vitalist thought, with significant implications for reassessing LüCheng’s position in modern aesthetic history, as well as for understanding the transcultural transmission and transformation of modern East Asian aesthetic concepts.