How to understand the differences in artistic functions between Mozi and Xunzi?

Differences between Mozi and Xunzi in artistic functions;

1, Mozi holds a negative attitude towards music.

2. Xunzi has a positive attitude towards music.

3, all belong to the concept of utility.

4. They all ignore the non-utilitarian special significance of art. ..

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The benefits and functions of art as a special ideology to human social practice. Generally speaking, the social functions of art include cognition, education and aesthetic feeling.

Cognitive function means that art can help people acquire all kinds of social and life knowledge, enrich people's life experience, and deepen people's knowledge and understanding of certain social and life laws. For example, we can understand the historical inevitability of feudal social life and feudal decline from the literary work A Dream of Red Mansions.

The educational function means that art can influence people's thoughts and emotions, purify people's souls and give people a moral standard. For example, a sculpture reflecting the Long March can inspire our revolutionary heroism and revolutionary optimism;

Aesthetic function refers to the fact that art can give people emotional excitement and quick feeling, and give people spiritual satisfaction and pleasure. For example, landscape painting and landscape poetry can make us relaxed and happy.

Fundamentally speaking, the three functions of art, namely, cognition, education and aesthetic feeling, come from the unity of truth, goodness and beauty in human practical activities embodied in art itself.

Art impresses and infects the appreciator through artistic images with various social attributes and aesthetic significance, making him subtly influenced by politics, morality, philosophy and other aspects, changing his mental state, and then affecting his practical activities.