Abstract:

 The world of beauty is superb and colorful, just because beauty has numerous modalities. And beauty, as the "revelation of original life state", not only possesses different life connotation for its life object, but also has different meaning for its mode of revelation Thus, based on the common life nature, aesthetic modalities are constituted, which embody various value functions of the beauty world and its entire value system. This essay, from the start of the principle of life philosophy, gives an investigation and analysis of such aesthetic categories as beauty, ugliness, sublime, daintiness, tragedy, comedy, novelty, eeriness, absurdness, amusement, revel and dizziness, and probe into the mode of their mutual dependence and transformation. For aesthetic modalities, not only exists the logic relation, but also appears the change of rise and fall in the process of historical development. Therefore, its value system continues to be regulated and renovated. Since different nation has different life circumstance and cultural tradition, the constituted aesthetic modality possesses considerable discrepancy. The argument here is limited in an interpretation of some idiomatic categories in the Western aesthetics, and, at the same time, makes some contrast with the tradition of China itself.