Abstract: Croce is the most influential expect of aesthetics in the west after Kant and Hegel . As the turning point of western aesthetics’ modernization, Croce aesthetics observes intuition on the basis of subjectiveness. It not only sums up the traditional aesthetics critically, but also accomplishes developments for modern aesthetics expansively. And in this way, western aesthetics has been pushed to achieve its modernization from epistemology to axiology.

Key words: philosophy of spirit, axiology, ransforming of axiology, modernization of western aesthetics, Croce aesthetics