Abstract:

Feng Qi, famous philosopher, pays much attention to the beauty. He is enamored of the traditional image of Jinang nu mu (literall, vajra-bodhisattva, Buddha's warrior attendant, holding a vajra in his hand, glares like a temple door-god), which is close to the sublime. It implies "art for life's sake" and a unity of truth, goodness and beauty. Its style is burning. According to Feng Qi, aesthetic freedom is possible becaruse there is dialectic of thinking in images, and the Jingang nu mu, as a special aesthetic form, is possible too becaruse there is the principle of humanity. For him, beauty and goodness (free personality) are prerequisite to each other. The dialectic of thinking in images re-sults in aesthetic freedom on the one hand and free personality cultivated by means of individualized per-ceptual images on the other hand. Moreover, the Jingang nu mu as a special aesthetic image awakens people's sense of vitality.

Key words: Feng Qi, Jingang nu mu, thinking in images, dialectic, principle of humanity, free personality