The holiness of beauty means beauty in itself. What are the reasons that beauty should be holy?It is a basic question in the domain of aesthetics that people has always tried to answer. First reason is that beauty in essence is a transcendent being. Second reason is that beauty is the symbol of truth and goodness in the highest spiritual sense. Third reason is that beauty is the experience of ultimate spirit realm and the understanding about our own life meaning which is a bridge across sense and reason, reality and ideal, fi⁃nite and infinite, and which there is a kind of redemptive power springing from aesthetic experience, leading our life to the realm of freedom. At present, the study of aesthetics faces a responsibility which responds to the calling of the holiness of beauty in itself.%美的神圣性是美学的一个基本问题。美之所以神圣，是因为美在本质上是一种超验性存在；美具有深厚的精神底蕴，是真、善在最高层面上的表征；同时也因为美既是对终极境界的体验，又是对自身生命的感悟，是跨越在感性与理性、实在与理念、有限与无限之间的桥梁，是人藉以获得自我救赎的机制。呼唤美的神圣性是当前美学面临的一个神圣责任。
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