本計畫所要研究之課題為：「自由與和諧：先秦儒家思想中的審美觀」。本計畫希望從「自由」與「和諧」的兩個視角，分析先秦儒家思想的「主體性」說法，既是一種「道德」的觀點，也是「審美」的主張，並且是一種「主客合一」的立場。具體作法為：經由經典文獻的重要詞彙的語意分析，以及「概念」層次之整理，理出先秦儒家思想的審美觀。 The research topic of this project is ‘Freedom and Harmony: A Study on Aesthetic Thought in the Pre-Qin Confucianism’. In this study, freedom and harmony are two main perspectives to analyze how “subjectivity” was discussed in the Pre-Qin Confucianism. Therefore, a two-phase study is designed to explore the semantic analysis of the key words in the classics and classification of the conceptual levels in the Pre-Qin Confucianism. The result reveals that “subjectivity” is regarded as a position of morality, a notion of aesthetic, and an assertion of intersubjectivity.
