本文根據《莊子》文本,依循系統化方針、字面意義的解讀暨深度意蘊的揭露原則,以且〈天下〉篇提示的《荘子》思想進路、《史記》提示的「老子到莊子的延續性觀點」,重構了《莊子》的美學思想內容,並證成《莊子》有「美的理論」,也有一套完整的美學觀。本文也陳論了《莊子》的藝術觀,指出那是一種豁顯了「入道」之無限可能性,以及「體道」之自由圓滿性的「工夫藝術觀」!並揭示《莊子》所謂的「藝術境界」,也只是素樸人性的自然流露,以及由工夫實踐所成就之人格的真切寫照,實不同於一般藝術觀。
According to the text of Chuang Tzu, this paper aims to reconstruct the aesthetic thought of Chuang Tzu and to justify that a theory of beauty and a completedly-developed conception of aesthetics are involved in the thought of Chuang Tzu. Especially, this paper expounds Chuang Tzu's theory of grand-beauty, and shows Chuang Tzu's ”Chin-chieh of art” is a kind of emanation of naive-human-nature, and a kind of reflection of the human-character.